Leaky boats

The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyway.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I like the fact that bad books exist. It means that someone had the freedom to write them and get them published. And someone else had the freedom to read them if they wanted to. Of course, one person's bad book can be another person's good book. 

The campaign against misinformation by the Biden administration during the Covid years demonstrated the wisdom of allowing free expression. Much of that "misinformation" turned out to be the truth. Much of what the experts said about Covid turned out to be mistaken. It other words, the proclaimed truth was too often the actual misinformation.

To use the analogy of Oliver Wendell Holmes. the truth eventually seeped into that leaky boat.

Many published books are hogwash. These may include political books on both sides of the spectrum, diet books that don't work. history books that get the facts wrong or the interpretations wrong, and so on. As long as someone else is free to write other books expressing a different point of view or presenting a different set of facts, wisdom will eventually get in.