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  • As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from crank to demagogue. When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

    "An Urchin in the Storm". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "The Quack Detector", p. 245, 1987.
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