David: But what else, except a one world government, would be able to save the earth from the impending attack — as prophesied by one NASA person — from other planets, for our refusal to heed Al Gore’s warnings? It is time for an updated version of Charles Mackay’s 1841 classic Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Why are so many of the intellectually endowed and academically certified among the most gullible consumers of snake-oil nostrums?

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