The implications are staggering. Ben Johnson could run the 100 in 2.6, and pass the tinkle test. These dramatic scientific breakthroughs, with all their physical and moral implications are, science assures us, just around the corner. Science is not infallible. Science once told us the sun circled the Earth and drilled holes in our skulls to let the demons out.
Scientists have trouble seeing the real world.
They're already talking about the possible cloning of great athletes. Well, for one thing, you'd have to wait 17 years until they reached adulthood. The new Pele wouldn't have grown up in poverty, playing endless games in the street with a soccer ball made of stuffed rags. Science can't do that.