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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 22 March 2012 01:31:59AM 1 point [-]

Only pass on ideas that you've verified yourself. (Problematic, since any given individual can only verify a tiny fraction of all of their beliefs.)

That really depends how literally you take this, doesn't it? Totally literally, you don't pass on an unverified idea - you can pass on a verifiable token referring to the idea ("I heard from so-and-so that...")

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