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by CamperBob 5935 days ago
I think what he is trying to say is that the experiment conducted for the documentary was not a robust peer reviewed phenomenon

Was the Holocaust a robust peer reviewed phenomenon?

Sure, selection bias is always going to be a weakness with these types of experiments, but one thing they do prove, no matter how sloppily conducted, is that you can always find people to do this sort of thing if you look for them.

Kids who go outside to stomp worms after it rains, to borrow an image from another poster further down the thread.