HOW often are we guilty of a type of naivety both in science and in life by insisting that the things we don't understand really do fit into the boxes of the things we imagine we do; that the facts fit our models of them? Take the comments by influential biologist and evangelistic atheist Richard Dawkins in the Los Angeles Times in 2007 about the scientific "vandalism" involved in hanging Saddam Hussein: "[his] mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research... Psychologists, struggling to understand how an individual... could be so evil... would give their eye teeth for such a... research subject. Political scientists... have now lost key evidence forever."
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