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When a tobacco company runs magazine ads depicting doctors telling you how *safe* Brand X smokes are, it's not because of the Heisenberg Principle or because the company is operating in an accelerated frame of reference, or even because they just see things differently from how I do.
They're *lying*...*they* don't actually belive what they're saying.
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Probably true, but people have an amazing, even sickening tendency to believe their own bullshit. People believe what they want to believe, however ridiculous.
I would like to point out that the internet provides an alternative conduit of reporting that wasn't available 15 years ago. It's becoming harder and harder to maintain lies with the availability of cheap, global reporting that the internet enables.