High tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel was interviewed over the weekend by Holman Jenkins in the Wall Street Journal, among other things asserting that science and technology (except computer technology) are failing to meet expectations.

The same issue describes a new University of Indiana study on sexuality of American adults built, it seems, on questionable data collection. The Kinsey studies of a half century ago came from the same university, you may remember, and have been the subject of a number of professional attacks in recent years.

It is becoming clear that DNA is not all that we were led to believe, says Matt Ridley in "The Failed Promise of Genomics"--see another Journal article in the same issue. (Discovery Institute fellows are well into this subject, by the way.)

And then there is the story of a food scarcity that is likely to follow a poor world record for corn production this year. It is not pointed out in the article, but we are massively subsidizing corn production for ethanol.

Finally, elsewhere reported this this weekend is the news that Dr. Harold Lewis of the U. of California, Santa Barbara (Emeritus), has resigned from the American Physical Society, complaining of the organization's propaganda support for bogus claims about global warming.

All of this in one weekend would seem to confirm the thesis that big science, indeed, is burdened with ideology that sometimes keeps it from running as fast and true as expected by the public that pays the bills.