The Galileo Gambit: Scientific Liberty, Consensus, and the Cost of Persuasion

"They laughed at Galileo, so my controversial theory must be right!" This is the Galileo gambit, a logical fallacy that surfaced repeatedly in Europe during COVID-19, notably around French professor Didier Raoult and his promotion of hydroxychloroquine.

As Carl Sagan countered in Broca's Brain: "... the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are…

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La projection du film sur Samuel Paty largement soutenue dans les écoles

Selon un sondage CSA, 79 % des Français se disent favorables à la projection du film L’Abandon dans les collèges et les lycées. Ce soutien massif, qui dépasse les clivages...

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The Democratic Party Has Made a Religion of Curated Facts

Centrist Democrats claim to be the bearers of hard facts, dismissing leftist dissent as emotional and naive. But their “facts” are often a mishmash of consultant data, selectively interpreted focus groups, and big donor priorities.


Former Barack Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz recently complained about the difficulty of having a “sane conversation with younger Jews” about Gaza,…

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