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Why The Regime Insists Party Members Lie
Stay with me on this story. It's not big in itself, but telling. So a lefty politician is running for mayor in the Taiwan city of Taoyuan. He belongs to…
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The MIT Dahn Yoga Brain Respiration Experiment: How Belief In Failed Theories Persists
This article began as a series beginning 3 January 2009. I thought it well to revisit it as an example of how to investigate controversial Science. Clever readers will notice…
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A People’s History of COVID-19
This essay first appeared at Mars Review of Books. SCIENCE Listen to The Science! Here is what The Science said: Stay inside for two weeks and we’ll flatten the curve.…
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The Disinformation Governance Board Was Conceived After The 2016 Meme Wars: It Was Formed To Stop Trump 2.0: Here’s How It Will Work
The creepiest government agency will become the home of the official Ministry of Truth I have been warning you about these many years, announced right after Musk bought Twitter. Do…
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Yuval Harari’s Homo Deus: Marketing The Materialist World View — Guest Post by Jaap Hanekamp
Reading your typical book is like sitting on the grandstand of a racetrack. You see the race cars whizzing by, and you sort of feel the excitement of the race,…
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Propagandists Boast Of Finagling Wikipedia: Here’s How To Have Wikipedia Revenge
It is good to take pride in your work. It is good, too, to show enthusiasm. And when a job has been completed in an exemplary fashion, it is sometimes…
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Prozac & Its Relatives — Guest Post by Robert Yoho
Psychiatry is the drug industry's paradise, as definitions of psychiatric disorders are vague and easy to manipulate. Leading psychiatrists are... at high risk of corruption and, indeed, psychiatrists collect more…
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Introducing The Covid Panic & Worry Indexes: Plus What All Cause Deaths Reveal About The Vax
This is coronavirus update CVIII. Are we sickened unto death of these yet? This is a long update. Be sure to see the New & Improved! in Numbers, where I…