Movements that aim to spread a scientific sophistication such as data journalism, Bayesian forecasting, evidence-based medicine and policy, real-time violence monitoring, and effective altruism have a vast potential to enhance human welfare. But an appreciation of their value has been slow to penetrate the culture.

Steven Pinker, Enlightenment now: the case for reason, science, humanism, and progress, New York, 2018, p. 403