Now what do I do with all these leeches?
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Celebutards and junk science, hmmmm......
......Although it's already been thoroughly debunked by objective, rational scientists, the biggest and most damaging celebrity/junk scientist hoax has to be Al Gore and anthropogenic global warming.
the planet is warming, it came out of an ice age. the planet has been through that before. but i dont know if we are making it faster/worse or if we are just throwing a monkey wrench into the works. who knows how the various things humans do will effect the entire world over time. we will find out one way or another.
but you cant call it a hoax, that is ignorant. that is saying gore purposefully lied, which i dont beleive.