If a society is going to make intelligent choices in policy, it helps to understand reality, which includes facts and data. People can, of course, misrepresent or misunderstand either, but without the availability of information, the best of intentions must need move trepidatiously.
Or, in less aged parlance, if you walk with a blindfold on a rainy field, there’s a good chance your foot will sink into a mudhole.
Such a lack of information can appear as a form of hiding, as the country has recently seen when parts of the federal government sweep problems under the rug to make them disappear. But the push of everything under cover is obvious in…
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