What's the New Definition of Likeatism?

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i do think the scientific model of how to engage with other people andan open dialogue, open disputation and debate is normal. So that the epigram to the moral arc is from j robert oppenheimer, 19 forty nine, there must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. Our political life is also predicated on openness. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will,. freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress. The weird thing is, even though i know to be really open minded, it's just

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