The Death of Science Quotes

“The British record industry earned £519.7m overseas last year, the highest figure on record. Export revenues for music in 2020 grew by 6% compared to 2019, aided by the "explosive growth of music streaming", said record label association the BPI. One in 10 tracks streamed globally hail from the UK, with 300 British artists receiving 100 million streams or more. According to the BPI, the UK is still the largest exporter of music in the world, after the USA - but its share of the global market has dropped from 17% in 2015 to 10% last year. 12 “In 2019 arts and culture contributed £10.47 billion to the UK economy. This corresponds to 0.5% of total UK economic output. There were an estimated 226,000 jobs in the arts and culture sector in 2019, 40% of these were based in London”13”
― P. Goddard, The Death of Science: The Retreat from Reason in the Post-Modern World

“Sophistry is the use of clever but purposely misleading argument. Specious argument is superficially plausible, but actually wrong. So who uses such arguments? The simple answer is that we all do. It is known as lying and, surprisingly enough, successful lying is a higher mental function. It is easier to tell the truth than it is to lie….to lie successfully requires imagination and a good memory.”
― P.Goddard, The Death of Science: The Retreat from Reason in the Post-Modern World

“There is an increasing tendency to form a conclusion first and then collect the evidence to achieve that outcome.”
― P.Goddard, The Death of Science: The Retreat from Reason in the Post-Modern World