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Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

Shocking research from the Onion has this as throwaway ending:

In 2002, Fultz’s team shook the academic world by conclusively proving the existence of both bad ideas during brainstorming and dumb questions during question-and-answer sessions.

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