I think we are just going to have to agree to disagree. If someone says “2+2=5” and then passes a lie detector test because he’s convinced himself that 2+2=5, fact-checking notwithstanding, I’d call that lying. Either that, or said person is just plain delusional. Which in’t much of an improvement.

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But back to the need for fact checking. It is nothing but repeating a myth to say that Al Gore said that he “invented the internet” since nobody’s ever come forward with source material quoting him saying so. What he did say about the net is well documented and quite different.

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.

Too many posts in this thread, getting confused what goes where. Al Gore was in another post.