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KEYWORDS: antiscience; belief; cognitive dissonance; counterknowledge; creationism; cult; denialism; evolutionism; fundamentalism; gullibility; ideological pathology; ignorance; intellectual deceit; intellectual perversion; literalism; misology; oncomeme; phony religion; pseudoscience; pseudotheology; stupidity
The characteristic of all fundamentalism is that it has found absolute certainty... Fundamentalism, however, is a terminal form of human consciousness in which development is stopped, eliminating the uncertainty and risk that real growth entails..
Heinz R. Pagels
Hate and Violence
Political Extremism and Terrorism
Religious Extremism and Fundamentalism
Pseudoscience: Content and Critique
Enrico Fermi
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
Galileo Galilei (quoting the bon mot of Cardinal Caesar Baronius)
John Paul II
Simone Weil