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Will you help me spread a hoax?
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bozho
13 years ago
I know this is an unusual request, but let me explain.

Hoaxes are all over the internet, and people don't get educated to doubt information that they read. That's why I thought we should help improve that. But we can't just write articles about how gullible people are, because those people won't read these articles.

Instead, I wrote a simple hoax about a scientific discovery that the alignment of stars correlates with the behavior of financial markets:

http://pastebin.com/7F7szky8

If you help me spread it (by sharing it), we can track down the gullible people and email them an instruction of how to avoid this in the future.

I won't use the emails I gather for spam, of course - I will delete the database as soon as I send the explanatory email.

So, would you help me educate "the masses" in an unorthodox way? And do you think the piece needs editing (I'm happy to incorporate any suggestion)

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