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“You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.”

Kurt Vonnegut

“Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.”

Oscar Wilde

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They fail to alter their views to fit the facts. Instead, they alter facts to fit their views.

Dr Who.

Scientific American on Science Denialism, Anti-intellectualism

Dgg

Pardon the intrusion?

“… high court not just indifferent to facts but contemptuous of them.”

“Facts are stubborn things. Whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence: nor is the law less stable than the fact…”

John Adams, 1770. Prosecutor at a murder trial of Redcoats who fired into a crowd at the Boston Tea Party, before a judge sworn to serve the English King.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-supreme-courts-contempt-for-facts-is-a-betrayal-of-justice/