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  • Credulity is a person's willingness or ability to believe that a statement is true, especially on minimal or uncertain evidence. Credulity is not necessarily...
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    Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism is a satirical print by the English artist William Hogarth. It ridicules secular and religious credulity, and lampoons...
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    Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr., (born January 28, 1962) is an American pastor, televangelist, and the founder of the non-denominational Christian World Changers...
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    states: "hence bean-síghe, plural mná-síghe, she-fairies or women-fairies, credulously supposed by the common people to be so affected to certain families that...
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    Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed...
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    to the reason but the passions and the suffering of their abused and credulous fellow-countrymen, from whose ill-requited industry they extort for themselves...
    235 KB (21,078 words) - 22:09, 27 May 2024
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    manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported...
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    years in 2017 for practicing medicine without a license. Antiscience Credulity Factoid Fringe theory List of topics characterized as pseudoscience Magical...
    110 KB (11,910 words) - 20:29, 3 June 2024
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    mother. In a man who named cities after his horse and dog, this strains credulity. Diodorus Siculus 1989, XVII, 77 Plutarch (1936). "Moralia". University...
    216 KB (22,034 words) - 17:48, 30 May 2024
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    foreword to the edition "Where Hitler's formulations challenge the reader's credulity I have quoted the German original in the notes." This evaluation of the...
    87 KB (9,533 words) - 11:08, 3 June 2024
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    (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind...
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    are akin to pranks. A snipe hunt is such a prank, when a newcomer or credulous person is given an impossible task. Examples of snipe hunts include being...
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    Hogarth's Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism, published in 1762, ridiculed secular and religious credulity....
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    archives. This, be it observed, is no case of a tradition rashly or credulously accepted. Clarencieux compiled the pedigree, as he said he had done,...
    54 KB (4,581 words) - 14:23, 17 May 2024
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    tiresome farrago of hearsay, imperfect observation, wishful thinking and credulity amounting to downright gullibility". Zoologists have frequently mocked...
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    Archived from the original on 21 June 2010. Grigg, Robert (1987). "Byzantine Credulity as an Impediment to Antiquarianism". Gesta. 26 (1): 3–9. doi:10.2307/767073...
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  • describing the age of Niagara Falls. Hundreds of newspaper articles credulously described the purported discovery of giant skeletons, sometimes with...
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    Jacob Sprengerh justified these beliefs by claiming women had greater credulity, impressionability, feeble minds, feeble bodies, impulsivity and carnal...
    201 KB (22,739 words) - 10:48, 26 May 2024
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    America: Too Close for Comfort. Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-57230-562-5. "Credulity Unlimited". The New York Times. November 22, 1934. Retrieved March 3,...
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    ISSN 2008-7802. PMC 4018649. PMID 24829724. Gorski, David (3 August 2010). "Credulity about acupuncture infiltrates the New England Journal of Medicine "....
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