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Quotation of the Day…

… is from William Rappard’s April 1st, 1947, Welcoming Address to the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society; it appears on page 50 of Mont Pèlerin 1947: Transcripts of the Founding Meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society (Bruce Caldwell, ed., 2022):

Rather, if he is illiberal as a man of science, that is if he dogmatically and intolerantly denies the rights of liberty of thought without which there can be no true science, he is not worthy of being called a man of science.

DBx: The covid era exposed many ‘men and women of science’ as being unworthy of being called men and women of science.

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