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The Taboos & Magical Beliefs Of Primitives And Science
Background Our subject is taboos and magic, but given the source material, a bit of background might be welcomed by some. If you are in a hurry, skip right to…
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Briggs You Fool! A Reader Attempts To Rebut Arguments Against Morality, Eternity
I'm thinking of starting a new series of posts, classed as BRIGGS YOU FOOL!, in which I cover emails of a certain genre I get. Email from Anon, in which…
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Experts: The Coronadoom Vax Only Worked If You Got It At Lunch
Nature headline: "Timing matters for COVID vaccine effectiveness: Younger and older people gained greater protection if they had their jabs in the middle of the day." Good joke: "Went from…
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Why Do Experts Lie About Something They Call Carbon “Pollution”?
We continue our series of trying to understand the Expertocracy, our form of government, and its uses of propaganda to further the goals of our rulers. Lying is a common…
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The Beginnings Of The Expertocracy (a.k.a. Managerial Society) Starts With Napoleon
The French Revolution is directly responsible for the creating the soil in which the managerial society grew. The Cult of Reason alone proves this. The initial flowering of the managerial…
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What Magic Tells Us About Propaganda & The End Of The Coronadoom Panic
The coronadoom panic came to its ignominious official end last week. A panic created, embraced, exacerbated, and perpetuated by elites, rulers and Experts. Especially Experts. I was on long drive,…
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Science Is Self-Perpetuating, Not Self-Correcting: Sea Ice Case Study
Headline from 2014: "Expert predicts ice-free Arctic by 2020 as UN releases climate report". Here from NASA is a picture by year of the estimated minimum sea-ice extent, which occurs…
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Bring Back Global Warming — Guest Post by Richard Law
'Rio de Janeiro is a city in South America. It is the capital of Brazil. It exports coffee and sugar. It has a tropical climate', so wrote the first form…