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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: How does Peter Popoff still have a following?

He's been debunked in a major way many years ago. Was just watching the movie An Honest Liar and recalled a friend's dad frequently sends money to Popoff.
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Because people are gullible and don't even do the most basic fact checking.

The kind of people that fall for that kind of bullshit aren't the most skeptical people to begin with. So they probably either have no idea about him getting busted, or they believe the accusation was false.

A lot of people are stupid, and when it comes to religion they are even more so, because they want to believe it's true rather than question it.