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Comment author: shokwave 25 November 2012 12:29:45AM 1 point [-]

Provide an explicit warning before mentioning a myth ... Use clear language and graphs where appropriate. If the myth is simpler and more compelling than your debunking, it will be cognitively more attractive, and you will risk an overkill backfire effect.

This crystallised a few of the reasons I respect the Sequences as excellent writing.

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