Monthly Archives: October 2021

Between Sanity and Madness: Mental Illness from Ancient Greece to the Neuroscientific Era

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Allan V. Horwitz, a sociologist of medicine: * During the last half of the century, Charles Darwin’s new evolutionary theory exerted a towering influence over the scientific zeitgeist, including psychiatry.6 Darwin … Continue reading

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America Is Not A Dystopia

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Academic: Why there is no way back for religion in the West

David Voas says the secular transition is an ongoing generational replacement of religious people by secular people. People don’t tend to change vis-a-vis religion. Only a tiny percentage of people who are raised secular become religious. People with no religion … Continue reading

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British MP Murdered, 10-17-21 News Roundup

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Assaulted at sea – and we may never know why (10-14-21)

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