From the Age of Reason to the corporate takeover of American democracy "Next!" illustrated by Udo Keppler for Puck magazine 1904, depicts Standard Oil as an octopus gripping the Capital and reaching for the White House. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams The Scientific Revolution with its methodology of following evidence to logical conclusio