"I need a man who knows
how the story goes."
— Shania Twain
"The causal story is that a crippled epistemology leads to fanaticism, which then leads to the urge for governmental control…
It is only through gaining control of a state in the modern era that a fanatical group could expect to exclude contrary views and thereby maintain the crippled epistemology of their followers. With the power of a state behind them, they can coerce."
— P. 18 in Russell Hardin, "The Crippled Epistemology of Extremism" (Pp. 3-22 in Political Rationality and Extremism, Albert Breton et al., eds., Cambridge University Press, 2002).
This is the source of more recent uses of the phrase "crippled epistemology."