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How to sell big lie based constructs

Technique #1 - downplay key evidence
Fact : nobody has the slightest idea what could be the "ancestors" of the Lord Howe palms (or any of the other endemics, btw).
Implementing technique #1

- #1a - suggest that there is some idea about it : many (endemics) have confusing origins, such as the three endemic palm genera Howea, Hedyscope and Lepidorrhachis and also Dietes sp., the three congeners of which are endemic to southern Africa and which has seeds with apparently only short range dispersal capacity.

Explanation for #1a :
- the word "many" suggests for at least for SOME endemics, the "ancestors" are known (so that evolution theory is not immediately questioned).
- the word "confusing" suggests that, for the endemics whose origin is not known, at least something is compatible with evolution theory (in other words : implicitly suggesting similarities with the flora of New Caledonia or Vanuatu, from where BTW the coral is also supposed to come from).
- give at least one example, no matter how grotesque : but in fact the only similarity that is referred is with South Africa ! (more on this later, explaining the dilemma faced by the poor liars when they use another technique detailed later)