Fake Witches, Fake Magic, Just Plain Fakers..

Lying isn't a good policy anywhere, unless you're trying to protect yourself from violence. I have no problems whatsoever with that situational ethic being applied. But mass deception, especially when it presented with a degree of academic credibility _really_ annoys me. Such as the falsified data of Cyril Burt, driven by the ideology that intelligence was genetic, the crass nationalism of the French with their supposed "N-Rays" and, in a more contemporary light, the mass and academic lies of Carlos Castaneda.

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