The whole problem with the world is fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
Our work on aleatory and epistemic uncertainty and its impact on programmatic and techncial risk brought me to this quote.
Epistemology is the study of what we know, and epistemic closure is being in an information cocoon where you just believe what you want to believe. This is a common condition in our popular cutural.