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		textninja on June 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 85% of People Want Global Ban on Single-Use Plasti... I’m taking this with a grain of salt because 85% of people adopting such a hardline environmentalist stance defies reason. I think the poll’s design and authors probably had something to do with it. Context matters!

legitster on June 5, 2024 [–]

Kind of like that "4 out of 5 dentists" claim from back in the day - it involved some very heavy editorializing:

https://nowiknow.com/who-was-the-fifth-dentist-that-didnt-re...

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