Why Centralising Control of Scientific and Political Speech Is A Terrible Idea
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John Stuart Mill, an ardent defender of freedom of the press, made the following remark in his 1859 tract On Liberty: “There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.” Opinions, for Mill, must be tested by opposing arguments, otherwise they become little better than dead dogmas that may be adhered to zealously yet with little rational warrant.
Why Centralising Control of Scientific and Political Speech Is A Terrible Idea
Why Centralising Control of Scientific and…
Why Centralising Control of Scientific and Political Speech Is A Terrible Idea
John Stuart Mill, an ardent defender of freedom of the press, made the following remark in his 1859 tract On Liberty: “There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.” Opinions, for Mill, must be tested by opposing arguments, otherwise they become little better than dead dogmas that may be adhered to zealously yet with little rational warrant.