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The bullshitter leads a cult

mardi 29 août 2023 à 20:18

The bullshitter leads a cult that systematically teaches its members to distrust everyone but him. That includes their friends, their families, and their religious leaders.

Interestingly, almost 1/3 of them don't trust the bullshitter either, but they are more likely to trust him that trust anyone else.

Black Britons convicted of killing

mardi 29 août 2023 à 20:18

Black Britons convicted of a killing without evidence that they had anything directly to do with it are challenging the verdict.

It may well be true that the practice of convicting people of murder by labeling them as gangsters because they are friends with a murderer is applied most often to blacks. Perhaps the decision to apply the practice is made in a biased manner.

But the crucial problem with this practice is that it is fundamentally not a valid way to determine that certain people are a gang. It is only an unreliable heuristic. Each time it is applied, whatever the demographics of those it is applied to, it is likely to result in a miscarriage of justice. We need not ask what race they are to condemn the practice.

If the practice were valid, thugs could nonetheless apply it based on racist criteria. Many thugs are racist and they often do that. But that is a different kind of issue.

Important to track SARS-COV-2 mutations

mardi 29 août 2023 à 20:18

It is important to monitor SARS-COV-2 in the human population in order to keep track of its mutations.

Careful government scrutiny getting rid of carbon offsets

mardi 29 août 2023 à 20:18

More careful scrutiny by government regulation is getting rid of much of the supposed carbon offsets that were never credible.

Billboards reporting on record high temperatures

mardi 29 août 2023 à 20:18

Billboards in some US cities report on record high temperatures "Brought to you big Big Oil."

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