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  • Propaganda: Are Americans Being Taken In By It?

    Propaganda: Are Americans Being Taken In By It?0

    After taking a hiatus from watching news programs for a while, a friend of mine recently turned on MSNBC. Following this experience, he said something along the following lines: “I’m done. I just can’t take it. The news cycle is continual repetition over and over again.” His statement recalled something I read while paging through

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  • Propaganda: 4 Tips to Fight It

    Propaganda: 4 Tips to Fight It0

    Edward Bernays, considered by many to be the father of modern propaganda, opens his famous book Propaganda by stating: We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. Of those men “we have never heard of”, Bernays writes: “Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of

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  • Propaganda Looney Tunes

    Propaganda Looney Tunes1

    I remember my history textbooks explaining the use of cartoonish figures as propaganda during the two World Wars. Imagine, for a moment, the inspiring Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam contrasted against the overbearing, dull, and cartoonish displays of the fascists and communists. I was inspired by Rosie, and at the same time, I viewed the cartoons of our

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  • Propaganda and Cinema: ‘The Most Powerful Weapon’

    Propaganda and Cinema: ‘The Most Powerful Weapon’0

    Approximately two months ago, I wrote about a handful of celebrities, some of whom are Jewish, who have faced immense backlash and bullying over their public support of Israel in its ongoing war with Hamas. Now, it seems that supporters of the other side in this conflict are getting their own share of consequences, but

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  • Prominent Surgeon: Medical Students Now Struggle to Conduct Surgeries

    Prominent Surgeon: Medical Students Now Struggle to Conduct Surgeries0

    Whether it’s for something as serious as cancer or as routine as a kidney stone, no one likes to hear that they have to go under the surgical knife. But such unhappy news is often lightened once a patient has the chance to talk to the surgeon and realize that he is in good, capable

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  • Prominent Scientist: “Public Science is Broken”

    Prominent Scientist: “Public Science is Broken”0

    In the wake of the well-publicized Flint, MI, water crisis, a prominent scientist who had worked on such matters before has gone so far as to claim that “public science is broken.” In painful detail, Prof. Marc Edwards of Virginia Teach describes the unconscionable oversights that led to the crisis—namely, state scientists ignoring the warning

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