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    <title>``Intellectual immune systems'' or ``intellectual self-defense''</title>
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Or, if not being able to come up with a good idea of your own, knowing a bad
idea when you see one.  (``Self-defense'' is Chomsky's phrase; and if Dawkins
doesn't use the first, he ought to.)  And &lt;a href=&quot;memes.html&quot;&gt;memes&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a
href=&quot;ia.html&quot;&gt;intelligence augmentation,&lt;/a&gt; obviously.  &lt;a
href=&quot;popper.html&quot;&gt;Popper&lt;/a&gt;'s ideas on criticism.
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