The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's adva…

Richard Dawkins
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The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really had the powers claimed, they could win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. ✨ The Selfish Gene. Book by Richard Dawkins, 1976.
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