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    Questions of policy and strategy cannot generally be considered "bench science".

    Sometimes new ideas really are new, and sometimes they're really revolutionary. When their proponents announce them by thumping their chests and shouting about how revolutionary and disruptive they are, though... time for skepticism to go into high gear.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dayuhan View Post
    Questions of policy and strategy cannot generally be considered "bench science".
    No, but we were talking about the scientific consensus. Just sayin’.

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    Sometimes new ideas really are new, and sometimes they're really revolutionary. When their proponents announce them by thumping their chests and shouting about how revolutionary and disruptive they are
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    If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. – Mark Twain (attributed)

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