Namely that bad ideas never really die, they just skirt falsifiability.

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It seems bad ideas do not die easily.

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It seems old habits really do die hard - whether they are good or bad.

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Genes bad for organisms are supposed to die out, not spread.

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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.

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Animal welfare charities claim that without continued feeding from passers-by more horses on Manmoel Common are likely to die, following lack of food after last year's bad weather.

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Yet 2m children under the age of five die every year in India alone, mostly thanks to poor nutrition or bad drinking water.

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