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Once people have been bamboozled long enough, they tend to reject evidence of the bamboozle
Drawn from what Carl Sagan said
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- Carl Sagan Astronomer and science communicator (1934 to 1996) whose…
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.
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↗The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Random House, 1995)archive.org
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