Re: When Politics hi jack science

On May 1, 10:17 am, Lee Olsen <paleoc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 1, 9:11 am, "Claudius Denk" <claudiusd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When you accept an hypothesis before it is proven you step on the...

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“I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the
greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most
obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity
of conclusions which they delighted in explaining to colleagues, which
they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread
by thread, into the fabric of their lives.”
Leo Tolstoi
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