This entire episode is premised on the assumption that everyone had good reason to believe and did believe that William was Mulder’s child. Now, on the word of the Father of Lies… No, on thehearsayword of the Father of Lies as related to Skinner who was given no proof, to Scully ...
The search for objective truth and advances in science sometimes overshadowed ethics and moral decision making, giving continued space to the eugenics movements and unethical human experimentation like what was seen in the Tuskegee experiments (1932–1972) or on a smaller scale the Stanford Prison ...
There also seemed to be a conflict, over the course of the season, between the stated premise of the show in the opening credits (delivered via one of the worst voiceovers in recent memory) and the actual product. The premise was simple: technology had outstripped society’s ability to c...