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Does truth matter—clean, cold, unfriendly truth, Max Gottlieb’s truth?

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“Does truth matter—clean, cold, unfriendly truth, Max Gottlieb’s truth?”

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Martin questions whether his commitment to exact scientific truth is an ethical necessity or merely one personal passion among many competing human desires.

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Arrowsmith, represented by Project Gutenberg #70875. The sentence is Martin Arrowsmith’s internal question during a conflict over public-health claims and scientific precision; it is fictional moral-scientific reflection, not medical advice.

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