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GreatGazoo

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1. The "white hat" gets dirty quickly. They are selling their credibility and their future careers for
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 08:31 AM
Sep 2015

a quick buck. And it isn't going to work. The era of big brand authority is over and they are struggling to find footing in the world of transparency.

Want facts about GMO crops ? Well you can't have them...the only science being advanced is the science of marketing. In this case, the logical fallacy:

An Appeal to Authority is a fallacy with the following form: Person A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S. Person A makes claim C about subject S. Therefore, C is true.


"White hats" like recently fired Mythbuster Grant Imahara went down quickly:

Imahara is shown the beef inspection area of the plant, where the purportedly high quality beef trimmings are being checked over on an assembly line, and Imahara is impressed as only a paid shill could be by the "nice chunks" of beef bits in front of him.

http://sfist.com/2014/10/13/former_mythbuster_grant_imahara_sel.php

Now the only gig he can get is "Sharknado 3"

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