The certainties we have

RACHEL MARIN

It is still curious that when humans are overwhelmed in the midst of uncertainty, we look for a lifeline both in science and in believing anyone. Two things as antagonistic as the scientific spirit or superstition seem equally to provide the relief of certainties that we lack. What if deep down it happened that this resort to science was not so different from the trickery that seems to oppose it? I am not referring to science itself, but to certain expectations that are directed at it and that seem not to have understood the limitations of it ...

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