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I sometimes wonder if it would be better not to talk about these sorts of things and hope they die off in obscurity.

• ZenPsycho 14y ago
  That's not how it works. The way crackpottery thrives is exactly because the people most qualified to debunk it refuse to do so because it is boring and beneath them. So it never gets debunked, and those who are less critical spread the bullshit around. This is how global warming skepticism gets spread around- Climate scientists just declare it so stupid they never bother to take the time to analyse point for point the bogus claims of skeptics and point out evidence for why the skepticism is wrong. I mean- it happens, just not often enough.