Gregory Benford - Benford's Law of Controversy

Not to be confused with Benford's law.

Benford's law of controversy is an adage from the 1980 novel Timescape, stating:

Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

The adage was quoted in an international drug policy article in a peer-reviewed social science journal.

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