Reason challenged
Audio 19:30
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By: François Bernard
21 mins
It is often said of the infox that it does not conform to reason, to common sense.
Creationism or ufology, for example, refute certain scientific truths and prefer hypotheses without any other foundation than the overflowing imagination of their creator.
It is tempting when one feels on the margins of the dominant culture to adhere to fanciful information, propagate it, even invent it.
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