How To Be A Skeptic, Part Two: Friends and Family
Stuff They Don't Want You To Know
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Doomsday Prophecy Quote, the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance
Dorothy Martin and her cult of followers believed that spaceman called the guardians were coming to collect them in flying saucers. As is often the case with doomsday prophecies, this did not transpire neither spaceman nor flood ever graced this planet. The researchers watched with fascination as the believers kept on believing it was what believers do. Despite all the evidence that they were wrong, these folks kept on keeping on.
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