“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Regarding the eight page pamphlet inserted into last week’s newspaper by advertiser Tom Barnett; it was not produced by The Echo.
We regret not noticing it was anonymous, and our role in unwittingly distributing unreliable information.
Echo readers have pointed out that if you read enough of the websites cited in the pamphlet, you’ll start wearing tinfoil hats.
It is untruthful, for example, to propose anthropogenic (human induced) climate change doesn’t exist. At The Echo, we embrace the colourful kaleidoscope of ideas from this wonderful community, yet put every effort into only publishing accurate and correct information.
