"Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
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evidence
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Baron May of Oxford on dangers of fundamentalism
@ 21/01/10 – 19:24:11
[ ... ] Faith trumps evidence. But if indeed this is broadly the explanation for how co-operative behaviour has evolved and been maintained in human ... more -
Bertrand Russell on teapots in orbit
@ 10/12/09 – 22:33:14
"Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, … more -
Bertrand Russell on dogma and evidence
@ 01/12/09 – 21:38:20
"I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence … more
