Category Archives: Everything You Think You Know Just Ain’t So

Inventing Superpowers: The Farcical Age

Posted on 5 November, 2022 by alfin2101

The Invention of China by Bill Hayton … Yale Press Premier Asia journalist Bill Hayton of BBC fame, has written books on China, the South China Sea, and Vietnam, as well as scores of articles on Asian topics. His most … Continue reading →

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A Trendy Left-Wing Child Sacrifice: Transgenderism

Posted on 18 June, 2022 by alfin2101

I saw a video the other day featuring an American surgeon bragging that he had performed more than 3,000 double mastectomies on young women who had paid for gender reassignment, individuals confused – one might say encouraged – by those … Continue reading →

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Irony

Posted on 4 June, 2021 by alfin2101

Irony is the figurative term for the disconnect between what appears to happen or what is apparently being said and the actual truth or reality. __ Source The singer in the song above expresses one meaning in the lyrics, while it … Continue reading →

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After 2020 We Are All Dead

Posted on 1 January, 2021 by alfin2101

The following timeline proves that after the year 2020 we are all dead:  “A secret report, suppressed by US defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged … Continue reading →

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You Have to be Smart to Understand How Stupid You Are

Posted on 8 June, 2020 by alfin2101

Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher in the late 1880s once wrote, “The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” Turns out, Russell was right. Research shows that people who are … Continue reading →

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The Lies We Tell Ourselves About Wuhan CoV-19

Posted on 23 May, 2020 by alfin2101

Almost everything we have been told about this Chinese virus is being revealed as a lie. We Need to be More Careful, and to Have More Humility: Humility about CoV models To get an idea of how serious the COVID … Continue reading →

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Stories for Heretics and Social Ruffians

Posted on 17 December, 2019 by alfin2101

Common Biases in Science that Slow Progress to a Crawl A look at some psychological handicaps shared by even the most intelligent scientists, by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder: Take for example loss aversion. This is more commonly known as “throwing good … Continue reading →

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Unrepentant Failed Doomer Paul Ehrlich After 50 Years: Still Predicting Total Collapse of Civilisation “Any Day Now”

Posted on 25 April, 2018 by alfin2101

Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich published the book of doom “The Population Bomb” 50 years ago, with his wife. According to Ehrlich, catastrophic global collapse was inevitable by the 1970s — or the 1980s at the latest. Ehrlich has managed … Continue reading →

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Everything You Believe is Wrong — Laugh at Yourself!

Posted on 15 August, 2017 by alfin2101

Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible … Continue reading →

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Everything You Believe is a Lie

Posted on 8 May, 2017 by alfin2101

None of it is your fault. It is just the way the human brain is made. The brain tries to resolve ambiguities in the best way it can, using all the innate quirks of our senses, emotions, and rational thought … Continue reading →

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Why are Today’s Young So Juvenile?

Posted on 21 April, 2017 by alfin2101

Update: The fantasies of today’s young speak ill of their upbringing and education. Earlier generations took on responsibility at young ages. Benjamin Franklin left school and began his working career at age 10. His writing career began at age 12 … Continue reading →

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Delusions, Obsessions, and Ideologies in the Age of Trump

Posted on 18 February, 2017 by alfin2101

Delusions are unfounded but tightly held beliefs. Everyone is prone to forming delusions — in fact it can be said that human life is built upon systems of delusions, depending upon one’s upbringing. Ordinary delusions, as opposed to pathological delusions, … Continue reading →

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Through the Looking Glass: The Black Swan Called Trump

Posted on 11 December, 2016 by alfin2101

No One Believed Peter Zeihan Until Now In the 2014 book “The Accidental Superpower,” Zeihan predicted the withdrawal of the US from a wide range of longstanding international agreements, leading to a weakening of the present world order. With the … Continue reading →

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Discovering Peter Zeihan: When Heads Explode

Posted on 29 June, 2016 by alfin2101

Charles Hugh Smith Discovers Peter Zeihan Charles Hugh Smith is a blogger – author who is open-minded enough to acknowledge new ideas when they hit him on the head. Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical analyst who loads his arguments with … Continue reading →

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A Sense of Security is the Beginning of Disaster

Posted on 5 May, 2016 by alfin2101

Humans crave security. They will go to great lengths in an attempt to make themselves feel safe and secure. Unfortunately, there is no limit to potential risks. The ones we focus on are often the least likely to do us … Continue reading →

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Learning to Transcend Failure is a Necessary Part of Growing Up

Posted on 29 April, 2016 by alfin2101

The following article is adapted from a posting published earlier on The Dangerous Child blog How Can Children Master Financial Skills by Age 18? Humans learn best by trying — by going out on the limb for something. Early tries … Continue reading →

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Nobody Knows Nothing

Posted on 12 February, 2016 by alfin2101

“Why Oil Prices Will Rebound Before We Know It,” appeared when oil prices were about $50 a barrel. Crude briefly bounced to $60, before dropping more than 50 percent to about $26, where it trades today. … It’s not just … Continue reading →

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Russian Government Prepares for Hardship, Decline, Unrest

Posted on 18 December, 2015 by alfin2101

Did No Russian Die in Recent Years? The only way that the latest Russian government figures about increases in life expectancy can be true is if one assumes that not one of them died in recent years, an obvious absurdity … Continue reading →

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You, My Fine Sucker, Have Been Hacked and Trolled by the Best

Posted on 20 March, 2015 by alfin2101

After responding to an advertisement in the popular HeadHunter job-search website, [Tatiana] became a Kremlin-paid Internet troll. Tatiana — who, like others interviewed for this story, asked that her last name not be used — worked out of a 2,500-square-meter … Continue reading →

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You Are Deluded

Posted on 3 March, 2015 by alfin2101

Commentary on excerpts from Dr. Bruce Charlton’s online e-book “Addicted to Distraction” Mass Media is a system like no other – it has no function of its own, so it can just keep growing. It has no positive aim for … Continue reading →

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“Everything You Think You Know Just Ain’t So:” And That Ain’t the Half of It

Posted on 22 June, 2014 by alfin2101

The human brain attempts to impose order on the world it perceives. The brain “makes sense” of its observations by grouping them together in ways that seem to help predict the future and guide actions for best results. Most of … Continue reading →

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Groupthink: Logic of the Hive Mind

Posted on 13 April, 2014 by alfin2101

The groupthink mainstream of academia, media, and politics does not want to allow opposing or contradictory voices to interfere with the accepted narrative. Here are different views of one example of the mainstream preventing cognitive dissonance — through silencing a … Continue reading →

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Everything You Think You Know Just Ain’t So: How Science Fails

Posted on 18 October, 2013 by alfin2101

You are being bamboozled by “science” and you don’t even know it. Everytime you hear about a “new scientific finding,” you are being hoodwinked in one way or another. What’s worse, government policymakers are making bets worth hundreds of billions … Continue reading →

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Everything You Think You Know Just Ain’t So Part III

Posted on 27 August, 2013 by alfin2101

One popular delusion among leftist greens is that industrial wind farms and giant solar arrays will soon replace coal, nuclear, and gas power plants in modern societies. In this case, as in many others, everything they think they know just … Continue reading →

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Everything You Think You Know, Just Ain’t So Part II

Posted on 13 July, 2013 by alfin2101

Human beliefs and belief systems are important and necessary methods to help us to make sense of our worlds, and to plan our futures. Unfortunately, they are all wrong — to a greater or lesser degree. In the original article, … Continue reading →

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