Thomas Wictor

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Factoid: the weapon of choice for totalitarians

Norman Mailer was deeply troubled, but he coined a great word: factoid. It means “an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print.” Almost everything you read is a factoid. It goes without saying that you should disregard almost everything you read. Depleted uranium factoid Look up “depleted uranium Iraq birth defects.”…

 

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