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False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
Charles Darwin

Articles by author: Richard Martin

President’s Column - The Global Tragedy of the Commons

By Richard Martin on Mar 01, 2014 at 10:06 AM in Humanists Update, Rational Thought

In 1968, UCSB professor Garrett Hardin published an essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" in the journal Science, which became a call to action for the environmental movement of the 1970's.

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