<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 8:12 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">NASA felt it had to say it did not </font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">run</font></div><font size="4"> a child sex ring on Mars because somebody on the Alex Jones Show, a show Trump has been on and </font><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">thinks is of </font></div><font size="4">high quality, said:</font><br><br><i><font size="4">“We actually believe that there is a colony on Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride, so that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.”</font></i><br><br><font size="4">Vladimir Putin also told Alex Jones to say Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a Washington Pizza parlor, I guess she was in competition with NASA's Mars <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">child </div>sex ring. <br></font><br><font size="4">About 5 million people watch Alex Jones, and the nation is getting dumber and dumber.</font><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/01/no-alex-jones-nasa-is-not-hiding-kidnapped-children-on-mars-nasa-says/?utm_term=.30cbb5d3e60d" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.<wbr>com/news/speaking-of-science/<wbr>wp/2017/07/01/no-alex-jones-<wbr>nasa-is-not-hiding-kidnapped-<wbr>children-on-mars-nasa-says/?<wbr>utm_term=.30cbb5d3e60d</a><br><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Pinker has long sections about self-deception and deception of others in The Blank Slate.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Maybe it first started in gossip. Gossip serves a crucial function in tribes but the question is: who to believe?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Then there's our infinite capacity for believing the good things about ourselves, even if ridiculously exaggerated, and playing down the bad things. A person who has more than normal self-deception may have a worse than usual ability to detect deceptions in others.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Some call this credulousness. Others just stupidity. To hear it is to believe it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Does this question answer itself? Do you believe that Trump has an abnormal level of self-deception?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div>
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