It's not that pseudo-science and superstition and new age so-called beliefs and fundamentalist zealotary are something new they've been with us for as long as we've been human but we live in an age based on science and technology with formidable technological powers science and technology are propelling us forward at accelerating rates that's right and if we don't understand it and by we I mean the general public if it's something that 'Ohh I'm not good at that, I don't know anything about it' then who's making all the decisions about science and technology that are going to determine what kind of future our children live in just some members of congress? but there's no more than a handful of members with any background in science at all and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to going to blow up in our faces.