Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking.
Science is different from many another human enterprise .
It is the particular task of scientists, I believe, to alert the public to possible dangers, especially those emanating from science or foreseeable through the use of science. Such a mission is, you might say, prophetic. Claims that cannot be tested, assertions immune to disproof, are veridically worthless. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out a train of reasoning but whether the conclusion follows from the premise or starting point and whether that premise is true. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology.