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by fireburning 455 days ago
who says that? i have never heard the saying

maybe the they got to the paranoid and induced chest pains so they could never share their saying?

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It's the Martha Mitchell Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mitchell_effect

> Mitchell was the wife of John Mitchell, United States Attorney General in the Nixon administration. When she alleged that White House officials were engaged in illegal activities, her claims were attributed to mental illness. Ultimately, however, the facts of the Watergate scandal vindicated her and garnered her the label "The Cassandra of Watergate".