Unlike many
of the research sciences, engineering rewards exactitude and
certainty, so it attracts people who are suspicious
of the
concept of scientific uncertainty, which is central in any
of the research sciences.
Scientific certainty, political pandering, a hopelessly conflicted IPCC, and now the Pope, spiritual leader
of the Catholic Church, in a bold move to reinforce the
concept of original sin, says the Earth looks like «an immense pile
of filth» and we must go back to pre-industrial bliss, or is that squalor?