Credulity is a person's willingness or ability to believe that a statement is true, especially on minimal or uncertain evidence. Credulity is not necessarily...
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Credulity, Superstition and Fanaticism is a satirical print by the English artist William Hogarth. It ridicules secular and religious credulity, and lampoons...
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Creflo Dollar (redirect from Credulous Dollar)
Creflo Augustus Dollar, Jr., (born January 28, 1962) is an American pastor, televangelist, and the founder of the non-denominational Christian World Changers...
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Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed...
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Hogarth's Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism, published in 1762, ridiculed secular and religious credulity....
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fanciful representation of Rebecca Nurse's trial from The Witch of Salem, or Credulity Run Mad by John R. Musick Born Rebecca Towne February 13, 1621 (1621-02-13)...
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manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which is the tendency to believe unlikely propositions that are unsupported...
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years in 2017 for practicing medicine without a license. Antiscience Credulity Factoid Fringe theory List of topics characterized as pseudoscience Magical...
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to the reason but the passions and the suffering of their abused and credulous fellow-countrymen, from whose ill-requited industry they extort for themselves...
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Leslie Felperin of The Guardian stated "Although its final act shreds credulity, and the structure is a bit wonky, this pulpy crime thriller from Korea...
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) "Cryptids and credulity: The Zanzibar leopard and other imaginary beings", Anthropology and Cryptozoology...
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Religion and Chinese Society. 2 (1): 54. Sutton, Donald S. (2000). "From Credulity to Scorn: Confucians Confront the Spirit Mediums in Late Imperial China"...
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America: Too Close for Comfort. Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-57230-562-5. "Credulity Unlimited". The New York Times. November 22, 1934. Retrieved March 3,...
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Archived from the original on 21 June 2010. Grigg, Robert (1987). "Byzantine Credulity as an Impediment to Antiquarianism". Gesta. 26 (1): 3–9. doi:10.2307/767073...
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belief. A similar contrast is often drawn in relation to blind faith and credulity. Various types of skepticism have been discussed in the academic literature...
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foreword to the edition "Where Hitler's formulations challenge the reader's credulity I have quoted the German original in the notes." This evaluation of the...
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reads, "Old school for both good and ill, Who Is Erin Carter strains credulity but clearly identifies Evin Ahmad as an engaging action star." Metacritic...
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mother. In a man who named cities after his horse and dog, this strains credulity. If Heracles was Alexander's illegitimate child, then it also raises the...
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'CharlieCharlieChallenge' doesn't lead to demonic possession – but it can nurture credulity and willful ignorance, which is worse". Patheos.com. Rebecca Watson (30...
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to coal. The subject purports to be serious but is an attempt to test credulity. Thick black treacle makes the deception plausible. The topic has been...
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mother. In a man who named cities after his horse and dog, this strains credulity. Diodorus Siculus 1989, XVII, 77 Plutarch (1936). "Moralia". University...
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storytelling devices (such as excessive reliance on coincidence) strain credulity. According to Rudyard Kipling (who himself wrote stories of a feral child...
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poking fun at the credulous city-folk. Hogarth made his own observations of the Cock Lane ghost, with obvious references in Credulity, Superstition and...
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(now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind...
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are akin to pranks. A snipe hunt is such a prank, when a newcomer or credulous person is given an impossible task. Examples of snipe hunts include being...
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disclosure advocates. Skeptic Robert Sheaffer has accused ufology of having a "credulity explosion," writing that "the kind of stories generating excitement and...
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ISSN 2008-7802. PMC 4018649. PMID 24829724. Gorski, David (3 August 2010). "Credulity about acupuncture infiltrates the New England Journal of Medicine "....
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of cheese. In its original formulation as a proverb and metaphor for credulity with roots in fable, this refers to the perception of a simpleton who...
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tiresome farrago of hearsay, imperfect observation, wishful thinking and credulity amounting to downright gullibility". Zoologists have frequently mocked...
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states: "hence bean-síghe, plural mná-síghe, she-fairies or women-fairies, credulously supposed by the common people to be so affected to certain families that...
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