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“If anything ail a man,” says Thoreau, “so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even … he forthwith sets about reforming—the world.”3”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Just like religion, science as an institution is and always has been plagued by the temptations of confirmation bias. With alarming ease it morphs into pseudoscience, even – perhaps especially – in the hands of elite experts, and especially when predicting the future and when there’s lavish funding at stake.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

“A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“The Planned Parenthood Foundation was founded in 1916 by Margaret Sanger, who thought philanthropy would ‘perpetuate constantly increasing numbers of defectives, delinquents, and dependents’.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge