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Will They Ever Come Clean About the Damage They Caused?

Mark Oshinskie / August 5, 2023 / Policy, Psychology / 9 minute read

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The Machiavellians who concocted the Covid response and the media who sold it don’t regret what they did. It served their political, social and economic purposes. Thus, the truth can now be publicly admitted, though not fully. Denying some aspects of reality allows the Coronamanic to deceive many and to think of themselves as good, smart people for having supported lockdowns, school closures, masks, tests and shots.

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The Creation of the 25-Year-Old Child

Daniel Nuccio / July 29, 2023 / Psychology / 14 minute read

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By attempting to cocoon both adolescents and young adults to protect them from bad choices, responsibility, and real-world consequences for their decisions until they reach a scientifically defined age at which they can enter the world fully mature and unsupervised, we will in fact be protracting their immaturity and delaying their development into the responsible adults we are waiting for them to become.

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Why did Mental Health Professionals Go Along with Lockdowns?

Daniel Nuccio / July 21, 2023 / Psychology, Public Health / 6 minute read

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Occasionally there was a suggestion that socially-distanced outdoor interactions might be acceptable or that phased school reopenings could be attempted. But, by and large, very few mental health professionals, like so many people from so many other fields, had the courage to present any real challenge to these policies despite knowing the damage they wrought.

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Why Are Intelligent People So Easily Tricked?

Laura Dodsworth / July 20, 2023 / Psychology / 5 minute read

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People reach the conclusions they want to reach, and then post-rationalise it – but smarter people are better at coming up with these justifications. To paraphrase George Orwell, some things are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.

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Prozac Is Unsafe and Ineffective for Young People, Analysis Finds

Maryanne Demasi / May 13, 2023 / Policy, Psychology, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Antidepressants like fluoxetine double the risk of suicide and aggression in children and adolescentso, they often lead to decreased quality of life, they cause sexual dysfunction in about 50% of users, and these harms may continue long after they try to quit. There seems to be no rationale for using fluoxetine in young people for treating depression – the new analysis concludes the drug is unsafe and ineffective.

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Whatever Happened to the Healing Power of Positive Thinking?

Seth Smith / May 10, 2023 / Psychology / 6 minute read

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How did belief in the natural healing power of the body and mind get replaced by hysteria, panic, iatrogenesis and a fanatical reliance on Big Pharma? What black hole did all the hippies and granola-types fall into, the people I spent much time with as a kid, while helping my mother at our local food co-op?

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Clean vs. Dirty: A Way to Understand Everything

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 23, 2023 / Philosophy, Policy, Psychology / 15 minute read

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The clean vs. dirty distinction was once an indicator of class, perhaps a desiderata of germaphobic pathology, even a harmless eccentricity. But in 2020, the obsession became extreme, an aesthetic priority that overrode all morality and truth. It then became a fundamental threat to liberty, self-government, and human rights.Today this demarcation has invaded the whole of our lives, and it threatens to create a horrifying caste system consisting of those who enjoy rights and privileges vs those who do not and serve (at a distance) the elites.

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Models Do Not and Cannot Reveal All Truth

Alan Lash / April 12, 2023 / Psychology, Society / 6 minute read

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Whenever a politician, or an authority, or even a friend tells you that all is known, that there is a model which defines the truth, and that by following the model the future will be known, be skeptical. There are mysteries beyond human understanding that escape even the deepest logical reasoning of man.

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The Suffering of the Innocent

Michael J. Sutton / April 3, 2023 / Philosophy, Psychology / 5 minute read

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We need to hear from the victims of Covid Hysteria if we seek real change. If we believe in freedom, we will start listening to those who have cried in the wilderness, walked in the darkness, and suffered in silence. The rest is background noise.

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Social Isolation Bad For Social Mammals – Who Knew?

Daniel Nuccio / March 30, 2023 / Psychology, Public Health / 6 minute read

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What were the cumulative health effects of encouraging, coercing, and forcing large populations into states of prolonged social isolation while simultaneously instilling in them intense fear and inflicting upon them economic uncertainty and hardship? What will the long-term effects of this be? And how could our public health experts not have considered that doing this to a social mammal might have been bad for their health?

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The Mandates Themselves Carry Grave Costs

Aaron Hertzberg / March 22, 2023 / Psychology / 14 minute read

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The inevitable consequence of public denouncements of the unvaccinated is that those who made them are necessarily rooting for the unvaccinated to suffer the grim fates they had articulated, at least in part, having invested themselves and their credibility in this narrative.

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Psyops Are Not New, Just More Dangerous

Alan Lash / March 17, 2023 / Psychology / 7 minute read

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As the terrifying totalitarian regimes used it against their people to foment murderous rage, the same could be in store for us. It’s going to take people who understand they are being manipulated, who understand they are being used, who understand they want their independence and freedom, to engender a peaceful and meaningful life for all.

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