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"Much scientific knowledge is hostile to some of our best-loved oversimplifications, and this knowledge, of course, will not be welcomed... For a long time we have had well-established ways of avoiding facts and ideas we do not like and we do not hesitate to use them. A partisan mind has undoubtedly been standard human equipment for the last million years. .. The partisan mind is one of the most effective of all isolating mechanisms. It establishes the vicious, little personal censorships that segregate us into groups and keep our information scattered--such censorships that keep us from reading certain books and periodicals that present unwelcome facts. Often the individual oversimplifications, which mean so much to us personally, were acquired in adolesence or even in preadolesence.
Approximate Word count = 450
Approximate Pages = 1.8
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