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 Nutshell: there is a belief which stretches from paid-up Randian anarcho-capitalists to certified latter-day socialists, that ''we can solve our problems with data''.
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-Thin rules lie - give us a false comfort in the teeth if things, the same way science does.<ref>{{author|Nancy Cartwright}}, {{br|The Laws of Physics Lie}}.</ref> So there aren't really 590 calories in that burger, there's not really 49.5km , the DNA tests really don't know whether you are partly Bulgarian — you as a layperson and none the wiser, so the claim can be made and got away with. It's not independently testable.  How would you know?  Your implicit trust in untestable propositions but gets trust comma and From nowhere the data modernists have bootstrapped themselves into a kind of credibility.
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