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Fuddnik

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87. The entire field is based on discredited science.

Fri Jan 13, 2012, 04:00 PM

Jan 2012

Scientific American had an article explaining this a couple of years ago.

Google, "The Economist has no clothes".

I've posted it here a few times, and it's still relevant.

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