The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not because they fail experimental tests.
– David Deutsch
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Samizdata may be intermittently unavailable today as we are scheduled for a server upgrade… nothing serious hopefully. November 22nd, 2006 | Comments are closed
 Putin, a former member of the KGB, became the leader of Russia in 1999, eight years after the fall of the USSR. Would anyone have considered it acceptable for a former member of the Gestapo to be leading West Germany in 1953? November 20th, 2006 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
November 5th, 2006 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
There has been some interesting discussion on Peaktalk in the subject of freedom of expression, marking the second anniversary of the murder of Theo van Gogh. As there are several relevant articles, I have not linked to any in particular. November 2nd, 2006 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
November 2nd, 2006 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. – James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 47 October 30th, 2006 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. – H. P. Lovecraft For me this quote can really be applied to almost any set of beliefs. October 29th, 2006 | 37 comments - (Comments are closed)
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If it is to survive, democracy must recognise that it is not the fountainhead of justice and that it needs to acknowledge a conception of justice which does not necessarily manifest itself in the popular view on every particular issue – Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty October 22nd, 2006 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
Some odd things have happened with a few recent comments (some garbling and different people’s comment running into each other). Most comments seem to be posting okay however. We are looking into the problem. October 21st, 2006 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The constitution and laws of a State are rarely attacked from the front; it is against secret and gradual attacks that a Nation must chiefly guard. Sudden resolutions strike men’s imagination; their history is written, and their secret sources made known; but changes are overlooked when they come about insensibly by a series of steps which are scarcely noted. One would do great service to Nations by showing from history how many States have thus changed their whole nature and lost their original constitution. – Emmerich de Vattel, The Laws of Nations or Principles of Natural Law, 1758 October 21st, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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