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Moral busybodies, monstrous certainty

Why are we censoring scientific opinions?

21 August 2021

9:00 AM

21 August 2021

9:00 AM

It was C.S. Lewis who observed that there is no tyranny more oppressive or insulting than that of ‘omnipotent moral busybodies’ who treat their victims as ‘infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals’, incapable of reason, and torture them without end because they do it with the approval of their own conscience.

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