I’ve read dozens of articles like this and my complaint is always the same: “Just because we can’t know everything, doesn’t mean we can’t know anything.” Yes,

I’ve read dozens of articles like this and my complaint is always the same: “Just because we can’t know everything, doesn’t mean we can’t know anything.” Yes, maybe a buffalo stepped on the thermometer. But the temperature was SOMETHING and just because you don’t trust your thermometer doesn’t mean the temperature is unknowable. And I found the glorification of free speech at the end troubling. Is free speech good? Yes. Is it the greatest good? Not at all. To say we shouldn’t strive to know anything concretely because we might suppress free speech seems like sheer folly.