A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.

Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.