"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
DeniseDeNephew on August 9th, 2017 at 09:07 UTC »
What does he mean by presentations on pseudoscience? We're too smart for that.
Ready2Comply on August 9th, 2017 at 10:21 UTC »
This part
"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
doubleagent03 on August 9th, 2017 at 13:27 UTC »
FYI, he's framing this as a prediction, but all of it was already present in 1996 when he wrote it. No prediction necessary.