"... the scientific researcher is not by nature a more honest man than the ignoramus. He is somebody who has voluntarily locked himself inside rules that condemn him, so to speak, to honesty. A particular ignoramus may tempermentally be more honest than such-and-such a scientist. In disciplines that cannot by their very nature provide total demonstrable constraint, imposing itself from outside on the researcher's subjectivity - for example, the social sciences and history - we often see, alas, the flourishing of lightheadedness, insincerity, the idealogical manipulation of facts, and the tendentiousness of clan rivalries, which occasionally take precedence over the pure love of truth by which such researchers are supposedly consumed."From: Jean Francoise Revel. 1991. The Flight from Truth. Random House: NY. 8-9.
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June 19,2003