Tim Cook <z99### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
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http://www.cracked.com/article_16656_6-brainwashing-techniques-theyre-using-on-you-right-now.html

  Those explain pretty well why some logical fallacies work.

  When you read about logical fallacies in an article discussing about them
(eg. at wikipedia), you usually think that they are so ridiculous and so
easy to spot that you would never fall from them. However, if you think
that, you are greatly underestimating how your brain works. When you are
reading the article, the context is completely different than when experts
manipulate you into thinking how they want.

  It wouldn't be the first time that intelligent, rational, highly educated,
critically-thinking, unbiased, non-radical people have been convinced of
bullshit by simply laying out the bullshit properly to them. If you analyze
how the bullshit has been laid out, you will notice many of the fallacies
described above, and others. They have simply been very cleverly masked.

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                                                          - Warp

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