Strong self-correction costs order by breeding doubt and rifts, so the institutions that sustain it most, the sciences, can afford it because other institutions keep the social order for them.

Evidence 2 passages

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  While such mechanisms are vital for the pursuit of truth, they are costly in terms of maintaining order. Strong self-correcting mechanisms tend to create doubts, disagreements, conflicts, and rifts and to undermine the myths that hold the social order together.

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  Scientific institutions have been able to afford their strong self-correcting mechanisms because they leave the difficult job of preserving the social order to other institutions.

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