12-14-2016, 09:32 AM
The "Trump Team" must not get them. Donald Trump can nullify scientific truth as much as he wants in public statements, but those who have sought and promoted truth as they understand it must have some protection from persecution -- even if those people are wrong.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.