• 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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    Confidence tricks exploit victims using a combination of the victim's credulity, naivety, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • with 2/5 stars and wrote "Jigra becomes a stretch, of both patience and credulity." The Statesman rated the film 2 stars, noting that it struggles to break...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    Coming of the Fairies. As before, the photographs were received with mixed credulity. Sceptics noted that the fairies "looked suspiciously like the traditional...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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    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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  • writing "The Place Beyond the Pines flirts with exhaustion and threatens credulity with its extreme generational conflicts and use of coincidence. Cianfrance...
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    growing natural doubts, does not result in imaginative play and can promote credulity in the face of strong evidence against Santa Claus's existence. Children...
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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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    made comments about Trump supporters, stating they were "part of the credulous boomer rube demo". He employed the tone of Southern American English in...
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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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