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Opinion, an exceedingly social thing, is therefore a source of authority … The objection will be raised that science is often the antagonist of the opinion whose errors it combats and rectifies. But it cannot succeed in this task without sufficient authority except from opinion itself.
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Bourdon, J. (1991). The Growth of Opinion Polls in French Television 1958–74. In: Rigby, B., Hewitt, N. (eds) France and the Mass Media. Warwick Studies in the European Humanities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11208-1_12
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