All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Ecclesiastes 3:20
"This assumption [that scientific institutions have a peculiar epistemic reliability] is at best naïve and at worst dangerous.
If any human institution is held to be exempt from the petty, self-serving, and corrupting motivations that plague us all,
---and required to answer to no one but itself."
Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012
Ecclesiastes 3:20
If any human institution is held to be exempt from the petty, self-serving, and corrupting motivations that plague us all,
the result will almost inevitably
be the creation of a priestly caste
---demanding adulation ---and required to answer to no one but itself."
Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012