"[A] regrettable effect produced by the publication of scientific rubbish [UFOs, dianetics, conspiracy theories, health fads] is the confusion they sow in the minds of gullible readers about what is and what isn't scientific knowledge. And the more the public is confused, the easier it falls prey to doctrines of pseudo-science which may at some future date receive the backing of politically powerful groups. A renaissance of German quasi-science paralleled the rise of Hitler. If the German people had been better trained to distinguish good from bad science, would they have swallowed so easily the insane racial theories of the Nazi anthropologists?" - Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (1952)
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