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Friday, August 14, 2009

Podcast - Hunting Humbug 101: Tutorial 32 - Impugning motives and poisoning the well

9-11 was an inside Job so Bush could start the war in Iraq for the oil and Hitler’s ideas came out of Darwinism… are examples of Impugning Motives and Poisoning the Well (respectively).

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