Krish Rao

“a crucial asymmetry: one can never prove that a theory is true, because it makes, in general, an infinite number of empirical predictions, of which only a finite subset can ever be tested; but one can nevertheless prove that a theory is false, because, to do that, a single (reliable) observation contradicting the theory suffices.65”
― Alan Sokal, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

“Thanks to the biased sciences of forecasting, econometrics, and statistics, if you bomb a city and then rebuild it, the data shows a huge spike in economic growth.”
― John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

“The choice of topics, the shaping of information, the basic assumptions, and so on fall within a fairly narrow spectrum which tends to be highly supportive of state and corporate power. -Noam Chomsky, about the Media:”
― -Noam Chomsky

“society had the political gumption to change unfair laws, practices, and procedures, we could avoid virtually all wrongful convictions.”
― John Grisham, Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions