If 'everybody knows' such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one.
--Robert A. Heinlein
(The car of the year for 2009 is a Ford. The Flex, to be exact.) If I'm Obama, I'm making damn sure I don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
The stuff "everybody knows." Everybody knows the name of Adam's wife in the Bible, right? Adam and Lilith, of course.
24-karat gold is not pure. A small amount of copper is mixed in: otherwise you'd be able to mold the gold with your bare hands.'
Nuclear waste is really, really bad, right? But what about coal ash, which is up to a hundred times worse?
Sometimes we have to remind ourselves that we may not have all the facts, and the facts we have could well be wrong...
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I didn't know...
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