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Reading and understanding are distinct from believing, without verification. We know a great deal about the press and its tenancies towards sensationalism. Market incentives certainly encourage sensationalism, for both publishers and individual journalists. It could also be that the article is not sensational at all, and Amazon has a ridiculous policy here.

Until you have concrete evidence to tilt your belief one way or another, the proper disposition is skepticism towards either position.



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