Porcupine_I on 04 February 2012
that is the great thing about scientific research. you don't HAVE to believe anything! you can go and figure things out by yourself if you don't believe others.
it's not like someone slaps a book on your table that has been written thousands of years ago by people nobody knows about and expects you to believe everything it says. that would be crazy, wouldn't it?
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
