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On most of the political issues dear to me, it is impossible to have a scientific study decide the truth. To believe that science could; that would be replacing morals and beliefs with scientism, not far removed from religion and ultimately a worship of intellectual authority and the elite.

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David Hume pointed out the problem with trying to draw moral conclusions from objective knowledge [0]. Since many political issues are essentially moral—what we should or should not do—the power of scientific studies to resolve them is limited.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is–ought_problem

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