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Discovery News: NOAA Denies Existence of Mermaids.

The long-term political attacks on public education bear obvious fruit.

07/01/12 • 03:22 PM • EntertainmentScience • (3) Comments

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I’m certainly a supporter of robust public education, but gullibility has never been in short supply

Posted by Emmett on 07/01/12 at 09:06 PM

Gullibility’s one thing ... but MERMAIDS?!!!

Sibling society? Next thing we know, they’ll do a big-budget 20-something version of “The Secret Garden.”

Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 07/01/12 at 09:25 PM

“There’s a sucker born every minute” P. T. Barnum

“No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” H. L. Mencken

I have seen Mencken repeated proved true in matters of taste, also.

Posted by Emmett on 07/01/12 at 09:40 PM

 

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