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  • Most Scientific Studies Today Are ‘Fake Science’

    Most Scientific Studies Today Are ‘Fake Science’2

    • April 12, 2017

    We’ve all heard the expression “According to research…” followed by some scientific finding that we are expected, given this prefatory expression, to accept without question. But as it turns out, even in a field as supposedly objective as biomedicine, reliability and validity are sorely wanting. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, science writer Richard Harris bemoans

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  • Most People Today Want to be Propagandized

    Most People Today Want to be Propagandized0

    There’s a principle in hypnotism that goes like this: A person cannot be hypnotized against his will. He must be a willing subject. He must be fully cooperative. So it goes with propaganda. For propaganda to be effective, it requires submissive subjects. As Professor Nicholas O’Shaughnessy wrote, propaganda is a “co-production in which we are

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  • Most People Now ‘Think’ in Pictures

    Most People Now ‘Think’ in Pictures0

    Like us, many of you are alarmed about the decline of rational thought in Western society. In his book The Humiliation of the Word, philosopher Jacques Ellul theorizes that a major cause of this decline is the fact that most people no longer think in words, but in images. In what he refers to as

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  • Most People Couldn’t Handle This Church Service

    Most People Couldn’t Handle This Church Service0

    A friend of mine recently allowed me to leaf through his aged copy of the 1662 edition of the Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer. “The Prayer Book” provides prayers, Scripture readings, and liturgies for every Sunday and feast day in the Church year, as well as for special occasions like weddings, funerals, and baptisms.

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  • Most Parents Don’t Talk to Their Kids, Survey Shows

    Most Parents Don’t Talk to Their Kids, Survey Shows0

    There’s an increasing awareness in America that many individuals can no longer discuss various issues with each other in a calm, reasonable, and civil manner. This is particularly true when it comes to issues, beliefs, and political ideas.  Many have scratched their heads over such a phenomenon, suggesting that the greater emphasis society now places

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  • Most of America’s Rural Areas are Doomed to Decline

    Most of America’s Rural Areas are Doomed to Decline0

    Since the Great Recession, most of the nation’s rural counties have struggled to recover lost jobs and retain their people. The story is markedly different in the nation’s largest urban communities. I’m writing from Iowa, where every four years presidential hopefuls swoop in to test how voters might respond to their various ideas for fixing

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