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don’t you form an opinion by looking at reviews made by the idiots conned by those asshats?

Some of the reviewers were conned, some weren't, but they actually have the product in front of them and they're generally honest.

Unfortunately the prevalence of reviews in exchange for money or free product warps this significantly. In those cases, reviewers are being paid to con you with their bias, even if they're unaware.

It's too subtle a point. The argument here is not about logic, but about intellectual honesty.

The parent you replied to believes everybody else is unduly influenced by 'asshats' and that his/her favored influencers are not 'asshats.' As if Ezra Pound or Edmund Teller weren't 'asshats' for nuclear explosive mining, or fascism.

Dismissing advertisers for being into the 'filthy lucre?' So what should we do with all the engineers doing the same?

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