"So maybe Ormerod and Roach have delivered another pleasant surprise: perhaps it is a sign of humanity's progress that our understanding of scale-free networks is now saving lives, not ending them. You could almost call it enlightenment."
I feel might uncomfortable equating heresy with disease. You know: heresy is disease, terrorism is disease, jews are germs, etc.
I mean, are they going to identify McDonald's as a hub? Doubt it. Are they going to identify Hamas as a hub? More likely.
Enlightenment has nothing to do with method.
Joanna