Science and democracy: the magic words of the postmodern Western world. When converted into adjectives or adverbs, they confer on any term an incorruptible, magnificent, sacred character. And politics, filthy politics, does nothing but exploit them. The process holds no secret: it is to support, in the name of “science” or “democracy”, the realization of one’s own will. And then despoiling liberties. Who will be the madman to declare himself anti-science? And science can say—must say!—that something like artificial pregnancy, or the extinction of red meat from the menus, or any other measure that must be adopted by all, under penalty of fine or jail, is a matter of public health—here, of course, the role of the god State. Well done! For if it is on the name of “science” and “democracy” that this century will rely on to attack individual freedom, I am happy to declare myself the first anti-science and anti-democracy animal in the Western world.
Science and Democracy
