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"... hirschfeld's behavior may have more to do with his foundational belief that science, once presented, would plead its own case. he had always trusted, for better and for worse, that when faced with scientific effort, even his enemies would see the error of their ways. it wasn't true then and it isn't true now. the argument from science works only on those who care to be changed by it."