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Yuck factor

Can certain passages from the writings of Richard Dawkins, or Muhammad, leave a bad taste in the mouth for Christians? According to the psychologists Ryan Ritter and Jesse Lee Preston, they do quite literally.

Ritter and Preston, from the University of Illinois, asked 88 Christian student volunteers to taste a lemon drink and rate (out of five) how bitter, sour, sweet, delicious and disgusting it was.

Then, supposedly to help clense the pallette, they were asked ...

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