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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

skepticscott

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2. One of the many

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 14, 2013, 08:28 AM

Sep 2013

DISadvantages of the Internet is that it reinforces this kind of dangerous woo woo, and convinces addled people that they aren't really nuts, by exposing them to all sorts of people who believe the same nonsense.

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