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H.G. Wells vs. George Orwell: Their debate whether science is humanity’s best hope continues today

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
image'Man Combating Ignorance' – what's science's role?Century of Progress Records, 1927-1952, University of Illinois at Chicago Library, CC BY-NC-ND

In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth...

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