From Jeffrey D. Kooistra’s April 2009 Alternate View column in Analog magazine:
If there is one thing that has become clear in the twenty years since the advent of [Cold Fusion], it is that presenting the straight scientific facts in straight prose and to a significant level of detail doesn’t sway set-in-concrete, or even set-in-Jell-O, opinions one damn bit.
All too true. None of us can clam be be without bias, and a surprisingly large percentage of problems in the world stem from this.
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