A judge just took Trump to task for his attack on science

In some quarters, science has a bad name. Some children, from their first exposure to courses in biology, chemistry, or physics, are intimidated by their quantitative focus or turned off by what they mistakenly see as its sterility.

On college campuses, humanists feel under siege due to the growing popularity of scientific fields among their students. They reject the view of some scholars that because “science follows the methodology of rational dialogue,” it “transcends culture.”

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