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With a few noteworthy exceptions, I have given up on the mainstream media ever being much help to us, or even merely not making it worse.

Shading on the outside of windows is far superior to on the inside. Stop the sun hitting the building and heating it up in the first instance works much better than trying to get cool it down once the sun has hit it and heated it up. There is a reason why dwellings in the tropics tend to have...

Because, as all right thinking people know, that interaction only flows one way: mental -> physical.

According to the foundational principles laid down by that renowned methodologist, Prof. Goebbels.

At what point does such blatantly and grossly selective citation and (mis)interpretation of evidence become fraud and corruption?

Be my guest. :thumbsup: This, and this. That is extreme, and seriously out of touch. I have no doubt they know that.

This is one of Wessely's hobby horses – that being on benefits somehow causes you to be psychosocially conditioned or habituated to stay on them. Conveniently ignoring the rather critical issue of correlation v. causation. It is nothing more than victim blaming excuses for regressive inhumane...

Incidentally, one of the most vicious critics of that book and the author was the influential psychologist Hans J Eysenck, who has an, um, interesting track record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Eysenck

"Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within." Stephen Jay Gould, from the The Mismeasure of Man

To the surprise of absolutely nobody. These kind of things have never worked, and never will.

Does a belief of irrational beliefs in others predict oneself having irrational beliefs about others?

An open and non-dualistic approach So open, apparently, that their brains have fallen out.

Not sure about this. Sometimes it seems to me to have an excitatory effect, at least in as much as it is difficult to calm down. Though that may be a secondary effect of frustrated drive that cannot be adequately expressed and used up.

Meanwhile, you can be damn sure the rich and powerful and their loved ones will go right on getting access to vaccines and the finest medical care science can provide.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." Richard Feynman

So far the only real benefit I have seen from AI is the potential for greater efficiency in spotting patterns in data. Which is a very real benefit, to be sure. But it is not good at the critical function of interpreting and recognising meaningful patterns in data. That is likely to remain a...

126.com and 163.com are major sources of email spam. But so is gmail.com, so it doesn't tell us much, beyond they don't have full control of the spam issue (and may not care to try too hard).

Garner is increasingly doing more damage to his own reputation with his shrill 'look at me' act than he could do to his critics. I almost (almost) feel sorry for him at times.

The very model of a modern BPS general.