The politics and science of contagionism vs anticontagionism

Just like 150 years ago people don't want to believe science because it entails an increase in government powers to impose rules and regulations on individuals.

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Why can one say `he believes that p, but it is not the case that p', whereas one cannot say `I believe that p, but it is not the case that p'?

--- Peter Hacker, quoted by Michael Starks, The logical structure... 2nd ed, p. 17