dry rot journal: PUBLIC MEETING, GRAND FORKS, APR 10 2015

Quotes

"the human understanding once it has adopted an opinion.....draws all things else to support and agree with it"

"and although there be a greater weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects or despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusion may remain inviolate".
Sir Francis Bacon, about 400 years ago

Today psychologists call it "confirmation bias".
Knowing its universal reach is to guard against it.

"facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"

Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays

"it is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding"
Upton Sinclair

"one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land is quite invisible to laymen"
Aldo Leopold

"experts are often as imprisoned by their beliefs as anyone else"
Bob Wiley The Mud Report

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In which the writer proposes:

Wednesday 1 April 2015

PUBLIC MEETING, GRAND FORKS, APR 10 2015