Logic & Reasoning
The etymological root of the term “Archon”
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams Archon (Greek: ἄρχων, romanized: árchōn) is the...
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Sir Francis Galton (*1822;†1911): Hereditary Genius
Sir Francis Galton, was an English Victorian era statistician, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician. He was...
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Google’s Whitepaper on the “fight” of disinformation
George Lakoff could write a book on the “conceptual metaphor” employed in the title of the whitepaper. George Orwell is turning in his grave...
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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld – Neoliberal indoctrination: Why do the lambs remain silent?
https://www.uni-kiel.de/psychologie/mausfeld/ Mausfeld focuses on perceptual psychology and also works on the theoretical foundations of experimental psychology and the psychology of understanding. He also deals...
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Killing babies in incubators – The fake Nayirah testimony (PR PsyOp)
The Nayirah testimony (aka the incubator lie) is a paradigmatic case as it demonstrates how the psychology of emotions is abused in the mass-media....
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The “Straw man fallacy”
A straw man is a common form of argument and is an informal fallacy based on giving the impression of refuting an opponent’s argument,...
ReadCognitive liberticide
Liberticide = “destruction of liberty”. adjective liberticidal = “destructive of liberty”. after the French noun combining form liberticide: liberté, liberty + -i- + -cide,...
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Chomsky & Herman propaganda model
The propaganda model is a conceptual model in political economy advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky to explain how propaganda and systemic...
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