“Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” - Carl SaganĪ search for snippets of the quote led to an entry on the site Goodreads ( which is occasionally a source for misquotes or shaky attributions): It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. Occupy Democrats prefaced the quote with “Carl Sagan perfectly explains why some just can’t quit Trump,” continuing:
On October 1 2021, an Imgur account shared a quote about bamboozlers and charlatans attributed to astrophyicist and science advocate Carl Sagan:Īt the bottom an “Occupy Democrats” watermark appeared the page shared the meme on Facebook late on September 30 2021.
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