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John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com>
<br><blockquote class="mori" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px blue solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="body"> <div><div class="mcntgmail_extra"><br><div class="mcntgmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 7:07 PM, BillK <span><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="mailto">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="mcntgmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="mcntgmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">>See the Reddit discussion here:<br>
<<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/387pog/isis_bans_pigeon_breeding_because_seeing_birds/" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/387pog/isis_bans_pigeon_breeding_because_seeing_birds/</a>><br> Just because you read it on the internet or in a newsrag doesn't make<br>
it true. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Does that include stuff on Reddit? </div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>Yes. And Extropy email threads.<div><br></div><div>It is worth noticing that a surprising number of entities - like the Iranian and North Korean governments, and a FIFA executive - mistake Onion satire articles as real. Fact checking is a dead art (anybody up for a bit of necromancy?)</div><div><br><div><br><br>Anders Sandberg, Future of Humanity Institute Philosophy Faculty of Oxford University</div></div></body></html>