unsinkable rubber duck

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A belief in a supernatural or paranormal phenomenon that people continue to hold, in spite of it being debunked.
    — Indeed, even if they are thoroughly examined and refuted in one age, they seem to reemerge within the next, and people will continue to believe them in spite of evidence to the contrary. This is what I have called the “unsinkable rubber duck” syndrome.

词形变化

unsinkable rubber ducks plural

词源

Coined by James Randi, by analogy to the way a rubber duck will pop back up to the surface after being submerged.
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