Can you make out the Dickens quotation that serves as the motto? There was a time when even so-called pseudo-science sought nothing but "facts, facts, facts." Today, we're hard pressed to name any institution that could in good faith adopt such a motto. The media? Political pollsters? Climatologists? Any other white-coat wearer of what Robert Anton Wilson dubbed the
New Inquisition?
Selections from the Papers of the Phasmatological Society, 1882.