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In science, you don't just get to cherry-pick the parts that justify what you were going to do anyway! That's religion! You're thinking of religion.

— John Oliver Last Week Tonight (2014)

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Last Week Tonight -- "Scientific Studies" (ff. 0:14:44), (8 May 2016)

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