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Carl Sagan The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011[1997], p.241)

“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. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the ne

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10:16 PM · Mar 24, 2020Twitter Web App

Doug R Mitchell

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Sunk Psychological Cost

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