I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity. (Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

I will repeat the following until I am hoarse: it is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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