“Unheeded Friend, Trusted News: A Story of Skepticism”

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Once a young man said to his friend, "I have just seen a house fall down due to heave rain." Now, the friend to whom he told this news had received education in English Schools and he was well versed in English. He told him, "Just a minute. Let me look it up in the newspaper?"

He read the paper but could not find the news of a house falling down with a heavy rain. Thereupon he said to his friend: "Well, I don't believe you. It isn't the paper; so it is all false."

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