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Is science ethically neutral, or can it supplant religion in providing a moral compass? PLOS ONE on a series of studies finding that exposure to science (either in one’s personal background or merely by being asked to think about science momentarily) made college students more likely to divide up money fairly, more likely to express interest in positive behaviors such as volunteering and donating blood, and more likely to strongly condemn a date rapist in a hypothetical story: No studies to...
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Popular social news aggregation site is currently under what it is describing as a “malicious DDOS attack”. Reddit has been in the news quite a bit over the last few days due to a few community members who have been analyzing photos and videos of the Boston Marathon bombing in an attempt to identify suspects. There’s no indication that the DDOS and the internet sleuthing are related, and at present, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack. The post...
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Trevor Moore is a member of the sketch comedy troupe “Whitest Kids You Know” The post Trevor Moore – “Founding Fathers” appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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Perhaps this is only an instance of our tendency to see faces everywhere. But nonetheless, located at coordinates 50° 0’36.67″N 110° 6’51.38″W in the mountains of Alberta, Canada is a geological formation which arguably bears strong resemblance to a Mayan chieftain. One wonders how he feels about recent oil drilling in the area: How to find the giant profile head on Google Earth. Share this with anyone and everyone who also seeks weirdness. The post Is An Enormous Mayan Head...
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For those who have any doubt that the United States government has sanctioned the use of torture in recent years, Ritika Singh, a research assistant at the Brookings Institution, reports for Lawfare that, The Constitution Project has released the results of its Task Force on Detainee Treatment in the form of this 577-page report—which concludes that “it is indisputable that the United States engaged in the practice of torture” and that “the nation’s highest officials bear some responsibility for allowing...
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The post Congress & Obama Pass Bill To Allow Insider Trading appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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“The wand as used in many modern day esoteric practices is in fact a symbolic drum stick, directionally beating our concentrated willed intent against the energetic surface of creational reality” My personal involvement with shamanism started some 30 years or so ago whilst on what may appear at first sight to be a totally unrelated path. At an early age I developed a deep interest in the mystical side of our nature, it was as if I was instinctively drawn...
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On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin talks to activist, author and Princeton professor, Dr. Cornel West, about class warfare, race issues, corporate greed, and the American empire. The post Dr. Cornel West on Racism, Inequality, & American Empire appeared first on disinformation. …read more
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The botched handling of the TEDx Whitechapel talks by Rupert Sheldrake and Graham Hancock continues to cause waves, now via an open letter to TED by Deepak Chopra, MD. FACP, Stuart Hameroff, MD, Menas C. Kafatos, Ph.D., Rudolph E. Tanzi, Ph.D., and Neil Theise, MD, published at Huffington Post: One of modern science’s great strengths is that any questionable finding dies a quick death if it’s invalid. The safeguards are mainly two: Your new finding must be repeatable when other...
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Via Common Dreams, on the insistence that Western political figures of power should not be criticized upon their deaths, Glenn Greenwald writes: There’s something distinctively creepy – in a Roman sort of way – about this mandated ritual that our political leaders must be heralded and consecrated as saints upon death. This is accomplished by this baseless moral precept that it is gauche or worse to balance the gushing praise for them upon death with valid criticisms. There is absolutely...
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