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I don't know. It kind of sounds to me like you're saying that millions of people over hundreds of years are either running, or falling, for a huge scam. Wherea

by edanm 11y ago

I don't know. It kind of sounds to me like you're saying that millions of people over hundreds of years are either running, or falling, for a huge scam. Whereas the alternative is that maybe you're just wrong or misunderstanding of how things work. I'd generally put higher odds on you being wrong, than of an entire field being so completely off base, at least a field as large and well researched as this.

TeMPOraL 11y ago
> I'd generally put higher odds on you being wrong, than of an entire field being so completely off base, at least a field as large and well researched as this. I generally would too. But we know now that it is indeed possible for a very large and "well researched" field to be wrong - just look at the state of soft sciences. A lot of evidence came up recently show that 90% of research in those fields is bullshit (often intentional). It's not beyond realm of possibility that a big part of advertising industry forms a self-contained system of moving money around with zero relation to the real world.