Have just recently started reading your work. I saw this older one and thought it was very good and will be linking it today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Thanks for the work you're doing. Each of us has a profound responsibility to speak truth to power. If we remain silent, we're equally responsible for the events that continue to unfold. Three inspiring men have shared their personal thoughts about this.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Dr Martin Luther King Jr
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
I've always thought the notion of "best evidence" and "best practices" reveals a profoundly unscientific mindset. All attempts to declare we're at the end of history and know best have been consistently proven to be unsupported hubris over time. Knowledge acquired from empirical sources is always provisional. New data will always be coming in, and while the claim of "best evidence" seems superficially consistent with that idea, practically it feeds confirmation bias and group think to the detriment of what should be a perpetual search for better solutions. I think it would be more appropriate to say "good evidence", but it wouldn't be very persuasive to demand censorship of anything not consistent with something merely "good".
Have just recently started reading your work. I saw this older one and thought it was very good and will be linking it today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
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Thanks for the work you're doing. Each of us has a profound responsibility to speak truth to power. If we remain silent, we're equally responsible for the events that continue to unfold. Three inspiring men have shared their personal thoughts about this.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” — Dr Martin Luther King Jr
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.” — Elie Wiesel
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
I've always thought the notion of "best evidence" and "best practices" reveals a profoundly unscientific mindset. All attempts to declare we're at the end of history and know best have been consistently proven to be unsupported hubris over time. Knowledge acquired from empirical sources is always provisional. New data will always be coming in, and while the claim of "best evidence" seems superficially consistent with that idea, practically it feeds confirmation bias and group think to the detriment of what should be a perpetual search for better solutions. I think it would be more appropriate to say "good evidence", but it wouldn't be very persuasive to demand censorship of anything not consistent with something merely "good".