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You get these with everything. The "man who predicted the stock market crash", "the man who predicted the world series winner", etc.

If person A predicts a stock market crash each year, person B predicts stock market boom each year, person C predicts stock market would remain level each year, then someone is always bound to be right.

Those who predicted peak oil was "right" when oil spiked in the late 00s, but then fracking happened and now we laugh at the peak oil crowd.




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