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Evbn on Aug 18, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I now, unfortunately, hate Hacker News..

There was someone who knew that before Dan Ariely: every priest of the past two thousand years, who led a congregation on daily prayers or confession.

sigkill on Aug 18, 2012 [–]

The priests did not write research papers and publish it in peer-reviewed journals. Neither did they bother with controls in experiments. So please don't be snarky.

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