Source: David Friedman’s Substack
by David Friedman
“Most of what I know is based on secondhand information; I have never seen Antarctica but am confident that it exists. Some, however, is first hand. I mentioned one example in my previous post, an experience during a summer spent in Washington as a congressional intern in my early twenties that demonstrated that competent academics, people I liked, were willing to do deliberately dishonest work. That was convincing in a way that second-hand information, an article arguing that published work was dishonest — I have written some — would not have been. Thinking about that started me looking for other examples of views of mine based on my own experiences. Here are some of them.” (12/08/25)