Month: August 2021

The Mistake We Can’t Even Look At

For a theory to go into a textbook as knowledge, it does not need the unanimity of checkers’ assent, but it does need far more than a bare majority’s. It should be generally recognized as having stood up better than any competitor to most of the tests that various critical debunkers have tried

‘Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought’ – Jonathan Rauch

I recently re-read Jonathan Rauch’s ‘Kindly Inquisitors’ as an exercise in poignancy over the damage wrought upon liberal science during 2020-2021. I have been shocked by the scale and blatancy with which the weaknesses in intellectual liberalism have been exploited during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.

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