There is nothing that can prevent you believing the stories of Russian fishermen, who, for the lack of fish, ate an alien, or the courageous deeds of Henryk Batuta, or a drunken wild boar raping teenagers or the hypothesis of an American physicist Alan Sokal relating quantum gravitation to feminism. If you have been exposed to one of the above stories and to top it off you believed it, it does not necessarily mean that you should doubt your intelligence or the ability to tell the truth apart from a lie. You simply have been nicely duped. Meaning you fell victim to mystification or hoaxing.

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