I’ve never done this before — promoted my own comment, that is. But I think I got a pretty decent thought out there.
When does politics trump science? Whenever it wants to. That’s a problem with modern politics in general, and — at least in part — we owe it to the malign influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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