I agree that lots of lies will probably die out without causing direct harm, though honestly, IMO it&#x27;s akin to most bullets shot in battle missing their targets. But people today have a habit of spraying lies on full-auto, and some of them (you don&#x27;t know which ones) actually do hit something and start recursively propagating. Maybe if people had a much stronger reaction to being lied to, we could reduce the occurences of lying to only those cases where it doesn&#x27;t matter in the long run.<p>I mean, look at the current state of science. At this point I think it&#x27;s safe to assume that most (like 90%+ most) of recent soft science results is bullshit, and probably most of medical research is wrong too. And it all starts with some scientists fudging results, and then other believing them and building on wrong research. Pretty scary thing - it seems like we have so much, but in fact we have very little reliable results, and it&#x27;s getting harder to tell the right from the wrong apart.