The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons

What’s the difference between being depressed and just being unhappy? Is drug addiction really a disease? Is sexuality inborn and fixed or mutable? When exactly does life begin and end?

Scientists think they have the answers to these questions, and these aren’t the only contentious and important issues we rely on them to resolve. Science, with its claims to neutrality, is where we often turn when we can’t achieve moral clarity. But it’s time to wonder if that’s a good idea.

In The Noble Lie, ...