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" Truth was subjective, not objective. There were many possible legitimate accounts of an event, not just one. Over the course of twenty years, this thinking came to influence all of Western discourse, education, and politics, and, as we will see, it become central to the late-twentieth-century culture wars. "
― Shawn Lawrence Otto , The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
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" Opponents of evolution, climate disruption, vaccines, birth control, stem-cell research, HPV vaccination, sex education, and other science issues are all using the same methods. "
― Shawn Lawrence Otto , The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It
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" But, without objective knowledge, all arguments become “but faith, or opinion,” and can go on forever. We are either paralyzed by it or we must resort to authority instead of objectivity to make decisions. This casts us all the way back to Hobbes’s predemocracy, pre-Enlightenment, pre-Locke war of every man against every man, where not evidence but raw power determines the outcome of a dispute. "
― Shawn Lawrence Otto , The War on Science: Who's Waging It, Why It Matters, What We Can Do About It