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    Al Borealis, Universal Health Care Trap? |478|

    Maybe this is not answering your question, but the political/political conspiracy overtones to this show have become more pronounced. Conspiracy theories about COVID and global warming have infected the internet with a virus worse more contagious than COVID over the last year. Can we get back...
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    Al Borealis, Universal Health Care Trap? |478|

    What happened to this show? Its turning into something like Alex Jones would produce Blame it on Trump, blame it on Hillary, blame it on the pandemic, but I feel Skeptiko has degenerated. Just giving my honest thoughts. Now onto an unrelated subject I just wanted to mention. I have seen...
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    Dr. John Fischer, Another Philosopher Tries to Debunk NDEs |431|

    Dr Fischer's calling 'supernatural explanations' for those theories that say that NDEs are evidence of consciousness existing separate from the physical body, is (ironically) just poor philosophy on his part. Is any theoretical explanation of phenomena that can't currently be tested or proven...
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    Dr. Philip Goff, Will Academia Get Beyond Materialism? |409|

    Having just finished a Masters of Research in Cognitive Science, I must say that the academic study in the science of the human mind is highly depressing. There is literally millions of dollars being spent on looking at correlations between psychological attributes: memory, learning, attention...
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    Dr. Dean Radin Brings Real Magic to the Psi Lab |377|

    If you are so amazed and shocked by a spoon breaking to the point where you think I must have made the story up, you are more gullible the I am.
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    Bernardo Kastrup, Mainstreaming Controversial Philosophy of Mind Theories |378|

    I wish Bernardo Kastrup's suggestion that increased mystical experiences were associated with decreased brain activity were straight forwardly correct, but I fear that like most attempts at finding neural correlates of complex psychological states, it will turn out to be not that simple. Some...
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    Dr. Dean Radin Brings Real Magic to the Psi Lab |377|

    I'm interested to see what Radin's new book really says. Modern science sprang out of spiritualism and the Occult. The Occult still permeates science more then most scientist would like to admit. Ritualistic lab protocols, sacred "tomes" like the journal "Nature" etc., that only distribute...
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    Dr. Dean Radin Brings Real Magic to the Psi Lab |377|

    A couple of weeks ago I saw a video on spoon-bending psychic Uri Geller. I was somewhat skeptical about the high praise that was being given toward Geller and described him as nothing more then an illusionist and entertainer. About five minutes later I grabbed a spoon to mix a bowl of salad...
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    That the so-called innate saliency of race or racial differences may not necessarily be so obvious to children. The division by race is one which we facilitate by socially reinforcing it with racial stereotypes and pseudoscientific talk about genetic differences between race.
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    Not more of this white “victim-hood.” America seems to be a one giant band-wagon of claiming discrimination and victimisation in all aspects of its society.
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    Anomalies in statistical trends are sometimes just noise and sometimes they are important clues. Exemptions that prove the rule.
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    The tiresome argument of "that is just an anecdote" continues. There is nothing wrong with anecdotes as long as they can be proved and are not just rumours. In science they call anecdotes "case studies." Finding exceptions to general statistical trends are also important because if we ignore...
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    I’m actually more into TOOL and Metallica, so go figure.‍♂️
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    All this video tells me is that many Americans and British, of all skin colors are racist. This is no surprise to me but where do these seeds of racism come from? No American who votes in America does so free of influence of ethnicity, ideology, economic class or religion. None of these factors...
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    I agree with most of what you say...but black people are good at sport??? Isn’t that a generalisation? There are many cultural reasons why most NFL players are black. Yes, the fastest men ever recorded are of West African heritage, but that is just one region of Africa. I think we need to...
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    What do you mean by black ancestors? We all come from black ancestors. Do you mean black people from Africa or black people from Australia, or both? If you mean Africans, do you mean sub-saharan Africans or North Africans? I agree with you that you can't state much about human phenotypes...
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    Even more damning for the out-dated "Genetic Blueprint" argument is the evidence of epigenetic effects caused by psychological states such mood disorders and social impacts such as childhood abuse.
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    Everyone is genetically different to some extent. Biologists are interested in genetic variation. Racial phenotypic features such as different skin and eye colour account for very little genetic variation. Put in simple terms, Mr blonde-haired blue-eyed Klaus from Germany may be more...
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    Michael Tsarion on Race, Jordan Peterson, and Why Conspiracy Work is Spiritual Work |372|

    No it isn't...and so on...and so on...until you produce an actual argument.
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