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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

Orrex

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6. I have seldom seen my mother get as angry...

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #1)

Sun Aug 23, 2015, 11:18 AM

Aug 2015

as the time I told her that her $14.95 copper bracelet didn't heal (or protect against) carpal tunnel.

She explicitly (and furiously) told me that she'd rather believe something that she knows to be false than accept an unpleasant truth.

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and it's amazing how insulted some of the perps get when they are challenged NRaleighLiberal Aug 2015 #1

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I have seldom seen my mother get as angry... Orrex Aug 2015 #6