If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.
Thomas SowellEveryone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
Thomas SowellMuch of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas SowellThe political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
Thomas Sowell