Dark Ages Quotes

“In social science, in contrast to natural science, it seems that by the time one goes in search of empirical evidence, a favored theory has already been chosen, and evidence is being gathered not in order to test it but in order to confirm it.”
― Lee McIntyre, Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior

“Unlike rival theories, rival ideologies are not decidable on the basis of empirical investigation.”
― Lee McIntyre, Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior