Tag: politics
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Dost thou conspire against thy friend?
What is it that makes us believe? For that matter, what is belief? If it has evidence to support it, does it transmute into knowledge -a different Magisterium? When I was a child, every once in a while when I happened to think about somebody, the phone would ring and it would be them. It…
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Have Hypnosis, May Travel…
“You want me to do what?” Janet’s smile never waivered; it broadened if anything. “Hypnotize my friend.” I rolled my eyes in a maudlin attempt to emphasize my frustration at her answer. “But your friend is a male, Janet…” She blinked slowly –her version of an eye-roll, no doubt. “Given that you are as well,…
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Medicine and Ideology
Some things are more definitive than others –less ambiguous, more predictable. Reliable, in other words. They lend themselves to yes-no answers, right-wrong judgements, good-bad characteristics. And some people prefer to see the world in black and white like this. Uncertainty is uncomfortable for them; they crave cognitive closure in the opinion of Arie Kruglanski, a…
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