Misinformation grows quickly It is easier and much quicker to lie, or to invent something that sounds right, or that people might want to believe, than it is to research a topic thoroughly, and check that everything you have...
Read MoreI’ve said this before but why not again? In the 80s right wing parties, in much of the Western World, embraced neoliberalism. The official excuse was the oil shock and stagflation (inflation and stagnation together). The...
Read MoreIts hard to say what capitalism is or is not, but relatively easy to point out when you are reading a book which is driven by ideology driven rather than by wanting to discover the truth about how capitalism works. 1) Funding If...
Read MoreThe issue: Just something obvious I’ve noticed recently – which suspect others will have noticed before me People seem to be using a formulation of a rule which seems designed to discredit the rule it is supposed to...
Read MoreThe original Brandolini’s Law, or the “bullshit asymmetry” principle is a really neat summation of things that are well-known, but hard to express simply the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an...
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