>By the way, this rhetorical style sounds a lot like the paranoid
>loyalty-questioning right.
Which is pretty much the standard response of the paranoid conspiracists to those who question their whacked out inductive reasoning. Gee, maybe Chip's a part of the conspiracy since he says it doesn't exist!
Kudos to Chip for a restrained response to an unrestrained ad hominem attack.
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