Originally Posted by WDBCB20

If you posit a gross generalization grossly enough you can inoculate yourself against being factually "wrong". You also end up not saying anything meaningful.

Meanwhile please "accumulate" for us a list of violent depraved criminality, suppression of truth and foisting of falsehoods in, say, the scientific community.

Try distinguishing between the occasional surfacing of such features as exceptions which are recognized, called out and corrected by a community's built in self correcting mechanism and these features being hard wired into an organization, indeed constituting the very boilerplate of their "holy" scriptures.



We have met the enemy and he is us. You have almost pinpointed the problem. Rather, it's the persistence in believing nonsense that has been indoctrinated from childhood as being something worth organizing one's life around because, after all, it's "divinely" decreed.

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