Kookologists have compiled indices of their favorite screwballs so you can instantly drill right down to your favorite type of lunacy. Lucky for the kooks, there are people out there who will pay attention to them, even if it's for reasons the kooks wouldn't like. What kooks truly crave is attention, and they'll take any audience they can get - even one that brings bags of rotten fruit to the performance. Join us in Threads . We exploit them.
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Shirley points out that crackpot ideas often become widely accepted. Most Americans believe, statistically, that there's something to UFOs. Humans have an invariable distaste for having their thoughts dictated to them. They have fabricated their own special consensus reality and they're fomenting some serious undercurrents of emergent panic. Some people complain about all the bullshit that gets spread across the Web every day by thousands of amateur publishers.