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This tension between #research vs "ignorance and denial" reminds me a concept that B. Brecht made Galileo say within his play "Leben des Galilei" [2]:
"Truth is the child of time, not of #authority. Our ignorance is infinite, so let us diminish it by a fraction. [...]
One of the chief causes of poverty in science is usually imaginary wealth. The aim of #science is not to open a door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error."