One Third Of Women In U.S. Military Get Raped
According to the NPR… In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder...
View ArticleBilderberg Group: Wasn’t this just a conspiracy theory?
There was an article back in November 22nd, 2009 that talked about the first president of the EU — Herman Van Rompuy — wanting a new Euro tax. In the article there is mention of the Bilderberg Group as...
View ArticleWhy Civilisations Can’t Climb Hills: a political history of statelessness in...
An interesting presentation by James C. Scott. (Link) (Download)
View ArticleDon’t Forget: DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated!
A link a friend sent me made me want to remind people that: DNA evidence can be fabricated! From The New York Times… Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA...
View ArticlePaternalism is the problem
A nice quote from Will Wilkinson… Paternalist policy is often justified on the grounds that members of a certain category of people are less than fully-equipped to act wisely on their own behalf. But...
View ArticleThe Grass They Feed On
A nice quote from Razib Khan… [I]n the ancient world there was little motive for peasants to move, as there was little difference in quality of life from locale to locale. In a world where productivity...
View ArticleEugenics and American social history, 1880-1950
Eugenics and American social history, 1880-1950 Allen GE. Department of Biology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130. Abstract Eugenics, the attempt to improve the human species socially...
View ArticleThe politics of human heredity in the USSR, 1920-1940
The politics of human heredity in the USSR, 1920-1940 Adams MB. Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104-6310. Abstract After the Bolshevik...
View ArticleLanguage of the Priestly Castes
A nice quote from Andrew Stuttaford… A characteristic of many priestly castes is the use of esoteric language as a device both to befuddle their audience and to secure their own superior status as...
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