To those skeptics who think science has done no good to humanity because we most visibly conserved our lack of wisdom over the ages, here’s my reply:
Science has helped humanity so much that today most of the parasites can live on the lives of others, even rule and manipulate them (that, presumably, was harder in older times, only rich people could afford a buffoon once in a while).
Science is doing its job so good, that we still can afford to stay (exploited by the) stupid till we die. Growing, supporting or tolerating parasites has become dirt cheap. Science helped us afford to live in the free T-shirt society and get enchanted by it.

This is an undeniable achievement.

It is, perhaps, still true that our lack of wisdom has been almost conserved but science protected us from getting killed in our 20’s because of that.
The skeptic, then, should become an optimist, because this salvation is in the process of getting extinguished itself: science has become a ritual, a fetish, a job; it will end up mechanically feeding only the parasites, so, although the parasites will outlive their hosts, the skeptics now have a well-founded hope that these creepers will press the wrong button soon enough to leave the earth pristine.

Those skeptics who are not yet convinced should check Idiocracy (2006) by Mike Judge et. all.

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