no one in this room has read the work of karl popper you ought to be just as widely known who arguedr the deep connection between liberalism and the open society and the scientific method of trial and there. most people think of science as a political and, indeed, a partisan sense. republican and democrat. is and should be. but politics and the larger sense is about how we organize society to make large social choices and resolve disputes, preferably peacefully. science in that larger sense is fundamentally very much a political system, and an important one. it is a liberal one. assuming that the family is a natural system the greatest social innovation in the entirety of human history is the liberal social system. its trades are, as timidly put on the board does not, it is decentralized, depersonalized a novel based, open-ended, and trial driven. it is a method to make social decisions, that is to resolve conflict. think about it. what a radical idea this is a jacket contravenes every human impulse, which is to be travel list, personal favoritism is at the core of how we ought to re