Loyalty to Truth

From American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher Learned Hand: I will remember that what has brought us up from savagery is a loyalty to truth, and truth cannot emerge unless it is subjected to the utmost scrutiny — will you not agree that a society which has lost sight of that, cannot survive?

Rats.  I was thinking we could simply make stuff up, like the stolen election or the lethality of COVID vaccines.  This guy seems to be saying that this isn’t cool, and damn, just when I was almost getting used to it.