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#548 - Tim Harford - Why Is Thinking Clearly So Difficult?
Modern Wisdom
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Fairies
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Fairies is one of his cautionary tales. He heard that two little girls from Yorkshire, near Bradford, have taken photographs of Fairies at the bottom of the garden. And he said, well, obviously this could be a hoax. But it was not an epoch making discovery, it was a hoax. It's just so fascinated by how Doyle convinced himself of this thing that is transparently ludicrous.
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