It's not in doubt that tobacco is far more lethal than hard drugs.

Washington basically works for the corporate sector and Silicon Valley, technically at least, is suppose to sponsor initiative in creativity, whether it does or not is another question.

The indoctrination is so deep that educated people think they’re being objective.

Whether the person should then be called "an intellectual" seems to reduce the issue to a question of terminology.

In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation for its development. So in this respect, linguistics, first of all, tries to characterize a major feature of human cognitive organization. And second, I think it may provide a suggestive model for the study of other cognitive systems. And the collection of these systems is one aspect of human nature.

How it is we have so much information, but know so little?

People tend to rally around power.