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But when they don’t like what science has to tell them, those wielding political power of the have another option besides running away from the truth: suppression.

— Chris Mooney The Republican War on Science (2005)

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Media coverage tends to be episodic and event-driven, always in search of the dramatic and the new.

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Whereas good science is rewarded for being painstaking and nuanced, politics is the enemy of subtlety.

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And then there’s religion, the source of the deepest fissure in the science-society relationship.

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Without the Internet, the modern vaccine-skeptic movement probably wouldn’t exist, at least not in it current form.

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

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