“If Baltimore's view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing is happening to the scientific community.” IfsCommunityViewsSeriousAuthorityBehaviorHappeningsOrdinaryScientistFundamentalsDisturbingBaltimore Book:Challenges Source: Challenges
“The Great Depression was not a sign of the failure of monetary policy or a result of the failure of the market system as was widely interpreted. It was instead a consequence of a very serious government failure, in particular a failure in the monetary authorities to do what they'd initially been set up to do.” GovernmentResultsPolicyParticularSeriousAuthorityConsequenceMonetaryGreat DepressionMonetary Policy Author:Milton Friedman
“To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.” Has BeensCountryUseLawGrowthSeriousAuthorityWesternPopulationPopulation Growth Author:John Holdren
“[Barack] Obama was reaching a point [with Syria bombing] where he might not have been able to carry it off.He was losing support internally, and was compelled to send the vote to Congress, and it looked as if he was going to be defeated, which would have been a very serious blow to his presidency, to his authority.” IfsHas BeensMightAbleSupportSeriousAuthorityLosingVoteCongressBlowBarackReachingDefeatedSyriaPresidencyCompelledBombing Author:Noam Chomsky