john c.p. goldberg

Acceptability, he observed, rests on a variety of considerations other than veracity, which means conventional wisdom can be wrong. ... Conventional wisdom plays as much of a role in academia as in other walks of life. ..

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So as an adjunct to that post, I wanted to emphasize that I think civilian bombing (whether conventional or nuclear) to be the worst single new idea of the 20th century.   ... likely have cost more Japanese civilian lives to continued conventional bombing and starvation than the atomic..

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