> “I really think that people should be suspicious of authority,” he told an interviewer last year. “The more you’re told that you have to believe something, th

> “I really think that people should be suspicious of authority,” he told an interviewer last year. “The more you’re told that you have to believe something, the more you should question it.” This amounts to a sort of intellectual homeopathy when it comes to dismissing the scientific consensus on an issue without commensurate evidence.