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

What makes us fragile is that institutions cannot have the same virtues (honor, truthfulness, courage, loyalty, tenacity) as individuals.

"You can almost always find flaws in a research paper, (partic. social science). So if you only publish papers that are flawed AND politically correct & remove those that are flawed BUT not politically correct, science becomes a political enterprise, that is, propaganda. " -

An enemy who becomes a friend will always be a friend; a friend turned enemy will remain so forever.