Words Worth Noting - October 28, 2026

“Note the number of positive assertions made in the name of popular science, without the least pretence of scientific proof.”

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 12, 1930, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 27 #2 (November/December 2023) [and foretelling COVID, climate alarmism etc. with uncanny accuracy]