Harvey Silverglate

You know, we have in the sciences, we have a scientific method.

Scientific method is you try experiments and you see which ones work and then you develop theories based upon the results of experiments.

Well, this is not much different from every other aspect of life.

You have to entertain different views on different subjects

You hear all the views and you make a decision as to which one's accurate and which one's not.

So the scientific method I apply to non-science, to history, to journalism, to all of these things.

Correct, if you don't allow hateful ideas.

I mean, when scientists do experiments,

Nobody says to them, oh, you know, don't do that experiment because it would be very bad if that turns out to be accurate, that outcome.

That's not the way it works.

Every point of view is thrown into the marketplace, whether it's science or whether it's...

you know, non-science.

The First Amendment prohibits speech which is liable to produce imminent, imminent violence.

So, for example...

You know, the exception is yelling falsely, falsely yelling fire in a crowded movie theater.

A lot of people misstate it.

They say, well, the exception is yelling fire in a movie theater.

Well, if there's really a fire, you're performing a real important function by yelling fire.

But it's falsely yelling fire.

You can start a riot.