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There's a saying in the PR business that for every PhD there's an equal and opposite PhD. And if there's not one then you can create one through funding. And if you put a lot of money into manufacturing ignorance, it can actually work.

— Robert N. Proctor

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We seem to know a lot about knowledge. What is remarkable, though, is how little we know about ignorance.

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