The Anti - Zombie Argument
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Kline had mentioned several reports suggesting that a chemical antidote was administered to the zombi victim in the graveyard at the time of his resurrection.... When I asked [Marcel] if he would be able to prepare it for us, he looked momentarily bewildered. Naturally, he replied, one would never make the poison without making the antidote. (W. Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, New York: Warner, 1987, p. 111)
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