An excellent article on why "The Experts" keep getting it wrong, via "The Atlantic". Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/06/how-to-predict-the-future/588040/
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An excellent long read on the Police of New York: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/13/18253848/eric-garner-footage-ramsey-orta-police-brutality-killing-safety
Before you say "Well that's New York..." remember that in Calgary Police have made it a regular practice to execute civilians for holding pen knives or driving impaired. While - on the other hand, if you're a cops son and you stab 5 innocent people to death you get a comfortable diagnosis of Schizophrenia and live out the rest of your days in relative comfort. "Alive" in this instance is relative comfort.
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An interesting and well written article via the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/03/04/the-psychiatrist-who-believed-people-could-tell-the-future
Which raises a lot of questions, of course. I like to cultivate a healthy skepticism, but some of the evidence, especially the evidence quoted in the article, is quite compelling. As are some of anecdotal reports of Twin Studies which suggest a psychic connection:
Link: https://www.livescience.com/45405-twin-telepathy.html
There is a point whereupon Skepticism - in the light of so much evidence, even anecdotal, can become it's own form of stupidity.
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