The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science (56 page)

Dawkins, Richard
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290
,
308

DDT
211

de-individuation
69

deafness
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82

decision-making
181
,
267

and emotion
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85
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189

dehumanization
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delusions
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104
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130
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178
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79
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182
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272

finding evidence for
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and Morgellons
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of parasitosis (DOP)
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162

democracy, end of
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Demon-Marker function
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depression
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45
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141
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148

Dermatologic Therapy
(journal)
128

development factors
183

Devil, Australia
see
Gympie

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM)
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144

dialogue-ing
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52

Diana, Princess of Wales
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diazepam (Valium)
42

dinosaurs
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Dog World
(magazine)
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94

dogma
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258

domestic abusers
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DOP (delusions of parasitosis)
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124
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129
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162

dopamine
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doubt
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sensitivity to
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dragons
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dreaming
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lucid
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drunkenness, cultural determinants of
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DSM
see Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Eagleman, David
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eccentricity
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Economist, The
(weekly publications)
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Eden
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Eden, Anthony
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Edward V111
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‘effectance motive’
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ego
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dream
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ego-bolstering, unconscious
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103
,
181

egoists
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196

Eichmann, Adolf
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Einstein, Albert
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Eliade, Mircea
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emotions
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194
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305

and beliefs
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196
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97

culturally unique
83

and decision-making
184
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,
187

see also
anger; happiness

energy

clean
25

Enfield Gazette
(newspaper)
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Enfield Poltergeist case
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Enlightenment
255

envy
218

epinephrine
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90

Epley, Nicholas
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escapology
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74

ESP
see
extrasensory perception

Ethics Committee of the Federal Australian Medical Association
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European Union (EU)
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European Union Parliament House
234

Evans, Dylan
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Evans, Richard
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Eve
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Eve, Mitochondrial
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Everett, Daniel
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evidence, denial of
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,
261

evil

psychology of
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‘supremely good’ motivations for
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evolution
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arguments against
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arguments for
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experimental psychology
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,
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extrasensory perception (ESP)
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294

alien
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sense of ‘being stared at’
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,
262

facts

and belief
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inefficiency
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fairies
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faith, as journey
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134

false memories
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194

familiar, the, attraction to
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‘fan death’
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Fate
magazine
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fear
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206

Feinberg, Todd E.
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Felstead, Anthony
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Felstead, David
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Felstead, Joan
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Felstead, Joseph
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Felstead, Kevin
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Felstead, Richard
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77

Felstead family
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Festinger, Leon
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Financial Service Act
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First World War
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Fisher, Fleur
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,
307

Flim Flam
(Randi, 1982)
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279
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,
295

Flood, biblical
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fMRI
see
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

foetal development
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fossil record
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Fourth Annual Morgellons Conference
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Fox, Kate
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Franklin, Wilbur
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free will
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,
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as confabulation
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French Assembly
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French, Chris
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French Revolution
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Freud, Sigmund
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Frith, Chris
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Fromyhr, Liam
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Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
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fundamentalists
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Garvey, James
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Gates, Bill
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Gazzaniga, Michael
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Geertz, Clifford
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Geller, Uri
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genes
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genetic factors
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and beliefs
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and political attitude
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and schizophrenia
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genome
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206

Genus Epidemicus
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George, St, and the dragon
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ghost-hunters
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ghosts
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Gilovich, Thomas
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Gindis, Alec
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global financial crisis
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global governance
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global warming
203

gnomes
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God
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305

Catholic interpretations of
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and creation
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creation of
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Darwin’s arguments against the existence of
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deference to
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existence of as scientifically testable
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knowableness of
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and morality
15

see also
anti-God rhetoric

Goebbels, Joseph
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Goenka, S.N.
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Goldacre, Ben
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Göring, Hermann
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Gottschall, Martin
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Gottschall, Sheryl
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governance, models of
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Gray, Honourable Mr Justice
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Gray, John
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Great Rift Valley
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‘greys’ (aliens)
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group psychology
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conformity to group pressure
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and the production of evil
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Guardian
(newspaper)
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Gururumba tribe
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Gympie, Australia
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gympie-gympie tree
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Hahnemann, Samuel
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Haidt, Honathan
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Hale, Rob
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hallucinations
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auditory
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see also
voice-hearing

visual
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halo effect
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Ham, Ken
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happiness, and religious belief
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‘hard problem, the’
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Harrow
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Harvard University
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Hawthorne Effect
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hearing, sense of
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Hearing Voices Network (HVN)
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Hebard, Arthur
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Hebb, Donald
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herbal remedies
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Hercules
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hero, the, how your memory rebuilds you as
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hero narratives
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parasite
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Hero-Maker
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Heydrich, Reinhard
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Himmler, Heinrich
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Himmler bunker
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Hitler, Adolf
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52

Hitler Youth
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Hitler’s bunker
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HIV
207

see also
AIDS

HMS
Edinburgh
(ship)
231

Hoefkens, Gemma
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,
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Holocaust denial
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Homeopathic Research Institute
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homeopathy
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,
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evidence for
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,
269

‘overdose’ protest against
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‘radionic’ method
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Homerton Hospital
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hominins
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Homo sapiens
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homophobia
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homosexuality
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