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Revision as of 01:15, March 6, 2009
Liberal denial is a familiar phenomenon. What are the longest liberal denials in history? Here's a growing list:
| Denial | Beginning of denial | Ending of denial | Length of denial |
| Piltdown Man hoax | 1912 | 1953 | 41 years |
| Alger Hiss as a communist spy | 1947 | 1998 | 51 years |
| Joseph Stalin starving millions | 1930? | 1980? | 50? years |
| Population bomb hoax | |||
| global warming hoax | |||
| Effectiveness of supply-side economics | 1975 | present | 34 years and counting |
| How Reagan ended communism | 1991 | present | 18 years and counting |
| That scientists understand causal mechanisms of AIDS | 1984 | present | 25 years and counting |
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