"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."
― Thomas Sowell
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Science
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- "Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."
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- "Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena."― Stanislav Grof