I swear to God "smart" people talk without thinking.
I'm listening to the companion podcast for ALIEN Earth, dude says that technology is a problem because it allows people "to do their own research" which causes them to mistrust "science". After talking about how Frankenstein was a cautionary tale.
He's part of a show about a fantastically rich man child sociopath playing god with synthetic humans and five different species of alien life form.
But yeah, trust the science.