Friedrich Hayek on the Conservative Denial of Science–50 Years Ago

Here's something that the evolution skeptic and Hayek admirer Ron Paul ought to pay attention to.

What is astonishing about the quotation below, from Hayek's "Why I Am Not a Conservative" essay, is just how much it seems to stand outside of time, as if it could have been written now, rather than when it was written, in 1960:

Personally, I find that the most objectionable feature of the conservative attitude is its propensity to reject well-substantiated new knowledge because it dislikes some...