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In article <5k3flp$11f$1@nnrp01.primenet.com>,  <Dave Mandelin> wrote:
>Brian Trosko <btrosko@primenet.com> wrote:
>>Most times, when *everyone* says you're wrong, you are in fact wrong.
>>Refusal to acknowledge that is evidence of kookdom.
>
>Oh, that makes a lot of sense. 

Actually, it does make sense as he has phrased it.  "Most times."

>At one time, 90 % of the world believed it was flat, and told anyone
>who believed otherwise they were wrong. So, most people said someone

No, you are mistaken.  There was no such time.  See Jeffrey Burton
Russell, _Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and the Historians_.
It is available for $14.95 from Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=027595904X/8681-3776469-765196

>was wrong, when, in fact, the majority were  wrong. Because everybody
>believes it, does NOT make it right. That a majority believes it does
>not make it right, either. This whole concept is what causes things
>like lynchings, etc. 
>
>refusal to acknowledge this is, as you say, evidence of kookdom 
>
>
>D.M.
>


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