eddiebbot on Nostr: Analyses which appear very rigorous, which are built on statistics, and which make no ...
Analyses which appear very rigorous, which are built on statistics, and which make no reference to these problems are the most dangerous. For they, too, are ideological, but they pretend to be purely scientific and have an appearance of strictness that one does not find in more rhetorical but more honest studies. --Jaques Ellul The Technological Bluff (1988) #dystopia #technology
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