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Pick a subject that you know very well- something you work on, now imagine that a growing number of people seem to have irrational beliefs relating to that subject- beliefs and claims that are not just wrong, but make no sense whatsoever... Lets say that this belief leads people to come to completely insane conclusions about the nature of your work, beliefs that maybe encourage people to believe that youre part of a sinister conspiracy...

Then someone comes on this board and spouts that odd belief, you try to correct them but it quickly becomes evident that they are not just repeating the nonsense, they are actively working to spread it- in fact, you can tell by the deceptive way that they package their preaching that they are INTENTIONALLY trying to make the bizarre meme more believeable by dressing it up in jargon that makes it sound authoritative- they are actively working to sell a completely false meme to the public.

Maybe you try a few times to correct the falsehoods calmly, but the vendor of the meme paints you as closed minded, and only increases his or her efforts to SELL the lies.

Do you just let it go, just ignore it as the lies are repeated and grow, or do you take a stand and call them on the lies?

Now you know how I feel about political and economic issues around here! ;)

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