No democratic delusion is more fatuous that that which holds that all men are capable of reason, and hence susceptible to conversion by evidence. If religions depended on upon evidence for their prolongation, then all of them would collapse.
From "The Foundations of Quackery", 1923.
The problem with this argument is that it does not consider what IS evidence, or that there are more types of evidence than poking it with your finger.
ReplyDeleteI hope I didn't imply that I agreed with Mencken's diatribe.
ReplyDeleteBy evidence, what would you point to?