After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.
We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

