@ProfesorTortuga For example, everyone knows Uncle Tom's Cabin is fiction but it influenced how people saw slavery(as Lincoln himself said)
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@ProfesorTortuga Okay, so you acknowledge that in some cases works of fiction can shape people's worldview. Yes?
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@ProfesorTortuga Sigh. Belief in JFK conspiracy theories peaked after Oliver Stone's JFK came out. What does that tell us?
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@ProfesorTortuga Instead of making up stuff, why don't you engage with actual historical examples I'm citing?
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@ProfesorTortuga Sci-fi stories of Verne & Wells influenced many rocket scientists in 20th century in Germany, USSR & USA. True or false?
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@ProfesorTortuga So: are only celebrated works influential on behavior & not those of hacks? Is that your position?
10:07 PM - 23 Dec 2015
from Toronto, Ontario
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