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SCIENTISTS
ОглавлениеScience used to be our friend. It eradicated disease! It made labour-saving devices! It shortened distances and aided communication! It was like Superman, only instead of one man in a dim costume, it was loads of men and women in white coats, all working round the clock to try and make things less crap.
And it worked for ages. Things did become a lot less crap. Despite the claims of several religious groups, life is a lot better now that a) we don’t have to pretend that we’re all going to one of two made-up places, b) we can have it off with any grown-ups we feel like, and c) everyone knows that any bloke in a robe who claims to represent the creator is at best misguided and at worst a kiddy fiddler. So hurray for science and reason.
But now it seems to have got a bit odd. Those lovely scientists are cloning each other and growing giant cabbages and generally doing the big science equivalent of taking the back off the watch and pulling all the bits out without really knowing how to get them all back in again. They tell us they are doing so in the pursuit of knowledge. A special knowledge that comes on rectangular pieces of paper with numbers and pictures of presidents and queens on it (no, not stamps).