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Here comes pseudolaw, a weird little cousin of pseudoscience

9 mins | May 28, 2017

Attorney Colin McRoberts writes in Aeon Magazine to highlight the advent of what he calls pseudo-law, where self-professed experts with apparent ‘knowledge’ of the law freely dispense ‘legal’ advice that reels in even intelligent believers.

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