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It’s believed that the lights held by the bishop and the women of the city fooled the British forces in the bay into assuming that Spanish reinforcements had arrived.
Hurt plays George from the movie's point of view instead of the character's: The professor's self-absorption and obliviousness are so apparent from the start that it's a wonder he could ever have fooled anyone.
Among those fooled by the Six Degrees of Separation -style setup was Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson, who lost $175.
But the feint also fooled the news media and the Republican spinmeisters.
As we've also seen, these genes can be "fooled" into encouraging altruism toward non-kin, altruism that presumably is not self-serving at the genetic level.