STANDING UP FOR SCIENCE
The Iraqi-British physicist Jim Al-Khalili is professor of public engagement in science at the University of Surrey and, like Steven Pinker, he wants us all to be more rational and adopt a scientific approach.
He has an upcoming book called The Joy of Science and, in a recent online lecture for New Scientist, he outlined his eight lessons from science we can use in everyday life.
As with Pinker, Al-Khalili is hostile to fancy philosophical arguments that reality is subjective, or
