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Quotation: BS detectors disabled

“Millions of unwary souls from every quadrant of Earth are swallowing a daily diet of quackery, conspiracy theory, bogus history and faux science. We haven’t just turned off our bullshit detectors, we’ve permanently disabled them.” -Louis Bayard, in a Salon.com review of “Counterknowledge,” a book about conspiracy theories by Damian Thompson.