An in-depth review of Mattias Desmet’s The Psychology of Totalitarianism which shows a huge amount of sloppy argumentation, outright mistakes and deceptions by the author.
Prof Mattias Desmet claims to have witnessed open-heart surgery performed under hypnosis without any anaesthesia
Prof Mattias Desmet claims to have seen with his own eyes open-heart surgery in Belgian university hospitals, performed under hypnosis without any anaesthesia. For once we have to agree with Alex Jones: “Unbelievable!”
Galileo Gambit, the Allan Savory variation
Savory falsely implies that true breakthroughs in a scientific field can only come from people from outside that field.
The return of a myth: Ritual abuse and the sacred status of Argos
Broadcasts by a serious journalistic investigative programme have led to the Dutch government setting up a commission to investigate satanic ritual abuse. But why? Are their clues really more serious than conspiracy theories like QAnon?
Thierry Baudet and Tom Zwitser fantasise about viruses that can specifically attack Russians …
According to Thierry Baudet the coronavirus might just be rehearsal for a more severe virus. Tom Zwitser suggests that such a threat might come in the form of a genetically modified virus that only attacks people of a certain race, like Russians …
The Dunning–Kruger effect is misunderstood by many
‘Too stupid to see how stupid they are’ – The ‘Dunning-Kruger effect’ is used all over the place to rub in people’s ignorance. Does the effect exist – and if it does, how big is it really?
Someone fucked up badly at MDPI Vaccines
The latest article that is promoted by anti-vaxxers and corona sceptics is published by Open Access publisher MDPI, where someone must have fucked up really bad.
Hanlon’s razor is a disposable one
“It is better to think of Hanlon’s razor as a disposable one. If you think you can to use it very often on the same person, you are being naive.”
Bayes Lines Tool is just another flawed attempt by the consortium to discredit PCR tests
The ‘consortium’ that’s attacking the Corman-Drosten PCR-test has published an mathematically flawed article on which they base the claim that number of false positives is huge in PCR tests for the coronavirus.
Some considerations on the retraction paper for the Corman-Drosten PCR test
A number of self-proclaimed PCR experts are attempting to have the first scientific article describing a PCR test for the coronavirus withdrawn. A look at their arguments and at their background.