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[–] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 45 points 3 days ago

Looking back when I was growing up I think the most nefarious thing about books like this is that printing gave a lot of implied legitimacy because it was expensive to print a book.

Speaks to how much money these people had to miseducate people.