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Re:The Paradox of Karl Popper by melling on Saturday August 25, 2018 @11:18AM (#17841121)
Nassim Taleb, the author of Fooled by Randomness and the Black Swan, is a fan of Popper.
Re:The Paradox of Karl Popper by PKop on Saturday August 25, 2018 @11:51AM (#17841279)
An excerpt of his thoughts on this subject, very interesting to contemplate the political implications of this:

"The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority" [0]

[0] https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...

"...Clearly can democracy –by definition the majority — tolerate enemies? The question is as follows: “ Would you agree to deny the freedom of speech to every political party that has in its charter the banning the freedom of speech?” Let’s go one step further, “Should a society that has elected to be tolerant be intolerant about intolerance?”

Re:The Paradox of Karl Popper by mulligan on Saturday August 25, 2018 @11:50AM (#17841277)
> Popper abhorred philosophers who argue that scientists adhere to theories for cultural and political rather than rational reasons.
Re:The Paradox of Karl Popper by coldtea on Saturday August 25, 2018 @12:21PM (#17841397)
Well, he might abhorred them, but he was empirically wrong in tons of cases on the matter.
Re:The Paradox of Karl Popper by pvitz on Saturday August 25, 2018 @01:51PM (#17841756)
And so is also Popper's student George Soros.