In Politics, Religion And Other Areas Of Culture, People Disagree On The Worth Of Competing Ideas. There Is No Equivalent To The Scientific Method That Can Determine In A Robust Way Which Ideas Match The Real World, And Which Ones Can Be Ruled Out. So Conflicting Ideologies Persist Indefinitely.

-Nathan Myhrvold

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In Politics, Religion And Other Areas Of

Nathan Myhrvold

In Politics, Religion And Other Areas Of Culture, People Disagree On The Worth Of Competing Ideas. There Is No Equivalent To The Scientific Method That Can Determine In A Robust Way Which Ideas Match The Real World, And Which Ones Can Be Ruled Out. So Conflicting Ideologies Persist Indefinitely.

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Real

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People

Movies Such As 'citizen Kane' And 'the Front Page' Portrayed An Era When Driven Newspapermen Would Do Anything To Get A Story. The U.k.'s Rough-and-tumble Fleet Street Remains Something Of A Throwback To That Era, As Demonstrated By The Recent Phone-hacking Scandal - Which Led To The Demise Of Yet Another Century-old Paper, The 'news Of The World.'

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Demise