Category: Society
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Religiosity statistics among scientists - A tale of oppression
A demographic survey of TED Conference attendees [1] showed that very few scientists selected any kind of religious affiliation (e.g., Christian 1.6%, Jewish 1.9%, Buddhist 1.6%, etc. [2] Could this mean that the higher intellectual status of TED attendees is the cause for them not being religious? Not. Many other researches have shown that the…
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ADHD, Sweden, crime behavior & "The Dictatorship of Psychiatry 2"
A Swedish study shows that people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who are involved in crime are less likely to reoffend when on treatment than not. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute looked at data from over 25,000 people with ADHD in Sweden. Estimates suggest between 7-40% of people in the criminal justice system may have…
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Google, ITU, UN and the popular myth of "Free Internet"...
Google has asked web users to add their name to an online petition to support its view regarding the upcoming ITU conference on the future of Internet. "The [UN agency] International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is bringing together regulators from around the world to renegotiate a decades-old communications treaty," it wrote on its Take Action site."Some…
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US democracy, Voting and the illusion of Choosing...
People vote in the US. But what is the meaning of "choosing" when there are only two choices? And no, people are not "free" to be a candidates themselves as Obama is. You must have millions of dollars in support in order to do that. Modern "democracy" is based on the premise of "free…
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More info, No info... The end is like the beginning...
Fill the world with an enormous amount of information... See people becoming overwelmed by much data... Important knowledge lost in the abyss of the Internet... In a weird way, the end is like the beginning when nothing was known...
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