Reply #23: The majority of people can't even understand many scientific principles. [View All]

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And ironically, their beliefs on these topics are, strictly speaking, as much superstitions as they are "truths." Stevie Wonder said "when you believe in things that you don't understand, . . .superstition." The line is not so bright as you think. It is possible to have a superstitious belief in something that is factual.

Free market theory, of the Chicago school variety, propounded by the mindless followers of Friedman, is largely an elaborate superstitious beleif system.