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Political scientist and religious data analyst Ryan Burge presented what I think is an important poll result last week. He looked at a survey that asked members of various religious groups “how often do you feel a deep sense of spiritual peace and well-being?”

A reporter cornered Marie Curie in 1904 and asked whether radium might cure disease. She refused to guess. Nothing had been demonstrated, she said, and she would not pretend otherwise. Her caution vanished the moment marketers got hold of her discovery. Drugstores sold radium water by crate. Chocolate came laced with it. A Pittsburgh steel…