The World Needs More Ninjas

Using the confirmation bias, these people will tell you that religion was horrible for mankind by counting deaths from the Inquisition and various religious wars. But they will not show you how many people were killed by nationalism, social science, and political theory under Stalinism or during the Vietnam War. We no longer believe in papal infallibility; we seem to believe in the infallibility of the Nobel [committee], though… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Black Swan