if you squash me, learn to live with me - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Self-contradiction is made culturally to be shameful, a matter that can prove disastrous in science.

The problem is that our ideas are sticky: once we produce a theory, we are not likely to change our minds....

This is hard to accept in the age of the Internet. It has been very hard for me to explain that the more data you get, the less you know what’s going on, and the more iatrogenics you will cause. People are still under the illusion that “science” means more data.