...ignoring for a second the unscientific lysenkonism of the assumptions on which this stands, it is sad how weak a logic and reality-grounded argumentation is

...ignoring for a second the unscientific lysenkonism of the assumptions on which this stands, it is sad how weak a logic and reality-grounded argumentation is available to the people who should know better. The template is known (Thomas Sowell's vision of anointed) -social vision is dangerously close to sealing itself off from any discordant feedback from reality -empirical evidence is neither sought beforehand nor consulted after a policy has been instituted. Facts may be marshalled for a position already taken, but that is very different from systematically testing opposing theories by evidence -it is so necessary to believe in a particular vision that evidence of its incorrectness is ignored, suppressed, or discredited