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

— Robert N. Proctor Agnotology (2008)

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We live in a golden age of ignorance, and Trump and Brexit are part of that.

It is certainly true that, in one important sense, the Nazis sought to politicize the sciences.

The ideal of value neutrality is not a single notion, but has arisen in the course of protracted struggles over the place that science should have in society.

Why do we know what we know and why don't we know what we don't know? What should we know and what shouldn't we know? How might we know differently?

Nazi philosophers also commonly expressed concerns about cruelty toward animals. In early 1933, Nazi representatives in the Prussian parliament called for legislation banning vivisection.

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