• jherazob@fedia.io
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    9 days ago

    One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

    - Carl Sagan

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      9 days ago

      exactly why they’ve been deliberately ruthlessly wrecking education for the last several decades. believe what you’re told to believe, regardless of whether that belief is supported by facts or evidence. actually, fact, evidence, science are your ENEMY

      as painfully evidenced by death threats to dr. fauci