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The “backfire effect” aka. belief perseverance
Belief perseverance (also known as conceptual conservatism[1]) is maintaining a belief despite new information that firmly contradicts it.[2] Such beliefs may even be strengthened...
ReadSir Bertrand Russell on the need for transnational propaganda and population reduction by scientific means
Excerpt from the book (see especially p.27 et seq.) From the original edition of 1953 Fulltext
ReadProf. Erich Fromm (1966) – The Automaton Citizen & Human Rights
See also: https://cognitive-liberty.online/erich-fromm-disobedience-a-moral-or-psychological-problem-1962/ Transcript The problem of human rights is usually dealt well by political scientists, economists or philosophers, but rarely by psychologists,...
ReadThe “Corona Shock-Strategy” of the German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI)
Download · 28.04.2020Wie wir COVID-19 unter Kontrolle bekommen PDF, 481KB, Datei ist barrierefrei⁄barrierearm Vorlesen Download Zitat (p.15) “Das massive Testen muss durch eine effiziente...
ReadTerror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Citation: Pyszczynski, T., Lockett, M., Greenberg, J., & Solomon, S. (2020). Terror Management Theory and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 0022167820959488. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167820959488...
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PCR-test cannot be used to diagnose Covid (or any other viral) infections
Keywords: [PCR factcheck, PCR Faktencheck, Signal detection theory, False positive rate, Statistical Power, Sample Size, PCR Test reliability, PCR Test Validity, PCR primers, PCR...
ReadHannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil
Arendt’s subtitle famously introduced the phrase “the banality of evil”. In part the phrase refers to Eichmann’s deportment at the trial as the man...
ReadMetaDTA: Diagnostic Test Accuracy Meta-Analysis v2.0
HUM Calculator (Windows standalone): https://public.ostfalia.de/~klawonn/HUMCalc.zip https://crsu.shinyapps.io/dta_ma/ https://micncltools.shinyapps.io/TestAccuracy/ https://micncltools.shinyapps.io/ClinicalAccuracyAndUtility/
ReadWHO’s defining criteria for a pandemic
Key scientists advising the World Health Organization on planning for an influenza pandemic had done paid work for pharmaceutical firms that stood to gain...
ReadUnder Your Skin! Covid-19 vaccines, nano patches, quantum dots, gene guns…
Keywords to research: Luciferase and Bioluminescent quantum dots Essential question #1: Non-GMO’s cannot be patented but GMO’s can (synthetic DNA)- who holds the “copyright”...
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