The skeptic demands evidence, and righty so. The cynic assumes that what he or she is being told is false.
[lengendary attorney Clarence] Darrow was the lawyer who in 1925 had defended John Scopes against the charge that he had broken Tennessee law by teaching Darwinism. . . . when the opposing counsel, William Jennings Bryan, accused him of being out “to cast ridicule on everybody who believes in the Bible,” Darrow shot back: “We have the purpose of preventing bigots and ignoramuses from controlling the education of the United States and you know it, and that is all.”
- BROOKS JACKSON and KATHLEEN HALL JAMIESON, from unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
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