Just as Jackson has his beefs with jug wine, which has failed to give U.S. wine a good name, so he quarrels with the conceits of the boutique vintners who shrink from scale.

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Studying it may also help us understand the rise of similar conceits that lack any plausible evidence--the belief that evolution could not have happened, that the moon landing was a hoax and, far more egregious, that the Holocaust was a lie and all evidence of it is the result of a massive conspiracy.

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