Daily Archives: June 2, 2021

How The Elites Use & Abuse Science To Control The Masses (6-2-21)

00:00 Mare of Easttown 01:30 Road rage is genetic 05:00 Figureheads, ghost-writers and pseudonymous quant bloggers: The recent evolution of authorship in science publishing, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139864 23:00 The Scientific Revolution, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=139893 27:50 Unregistered 167: Eric Kaufmann, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXh1i3s0RC8 43:00 Nudgelords: Given their … Continue reading

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‘Most Americans want to go back to normal, but some wish to make permanent the ‘temporary’ COVID controls’

Martin Gurri writes: * A handful of corporations now command the strategic heights over the economy and the information landscape, a concentration of power that is probably unprecedented in our history. Their natural impulse will be to consolidate and expand … Continue reading

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The Monoculture Of Migration Studies

Eric Kaufman writes about Peter Gatrell’s The Unsettling of Europe: The book’s aim is to “make migration normal” by problematizing the native/immigrant distinction while convincing “native” Europeans to stop thinking of themselves as long-settled folk and more as mobile folk … Continue reading

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The Scientific Revolution

From the London Review of Books: * For the great majority of people, believing in the truths of science is unavoidably an act of faith. Most of us neither witness the successful experiments nor would be able to understand them … Continue reading

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An exploration of Donald Trump’s allegations of massive voter fraud in the 2016 General Election

An academic paper from 2017: * As Republican candidate for president and later 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump has claimed repeatedly and vociferously that the 2016 General Election was tainted by massive voter fraud. Here we use … Continue reading

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