O lado oscuro da inovaçõ e da ciência

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey explica:
"... Innovations can be bad: mustard gas and asbestos insulation were. It is easiest to see that innovation can be bad by thinking of artistic or scientific examples, to which Israel’s theory of alertness also applies. For example the scientific innovation of eugenics, reaching its dismal height in 1945 but now revived by writers such as Stephen Pinker, was indeed an innovation, and scientific. It was not “pseudo” or “junk” science (which are qualifiers used by uncritical admirers of science to protect it from democratic scrutiny). In 1910 almost all the best scientists believed in sterilizing poor people and Jews, if they could get their hands on them. And in the 1920s the governments of Germany, the U.S., Sweden, and, worst of all, Norway let them..."
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