Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.
Science is as corruptible a human activity as any other.
In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.
Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.