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I see no evidence of woo-orientation slowing down - Deepak Chopra has seemingly never been more popular - and angry backlash is a perfectly understandable response to swathes of people being taken in by lies with spiritual overtones. We should be thankful that Uri Geller never attempted to become a true cult leader.

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Yeah there's been an enormous resurgence in astrology in recent years, some semi-ironic but most of it absolutely sincere.

You can say "oh but isn't this harmless", but it's not really. Critical thinking isn't just a thing you can turn off and on. Carl Sagan's "The Demon-Haunted World" deals with this really well.

Yes, but nobody ever believed that Uri Geller could really bend spoons.

Just like nobody actually believes that the Earth is flat. Oh wait...

Or that Mars appearing to move backward in the sky has a significant impact on your personal life.

It's a posture. "Owning the libs" taken to illogical extreme

It's a joke, that people don't appear to "get". The more upset people get about "Flat Earthers", the funnier it is.

Maybe this was once true, but nowadays I'm afraid the etiology is rather more complicated than that - flat eartherism is now full-on cult territory. I recommend the documentary "Behind the Curve".

Man, it actually sounds like you've fallen for it too, or have I been whooshed?

Nobody does believe the Earth is flat.

Your faith in humanity is admirable but sadly misplaced.

You know all those folk who claim the Earth is flat? You know they're joking, right?

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