16 December, 2020 – Episode 804 – TWIS the Season to Hibernate?

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Extinction Patterns, What the Keck?, Diamond Sparkling Water, Human Faces, Fewer Hurricanes!, Computer Brains, COVID UPDATE, Spiders… In… Space!, Fish Radios?, MOND Prediction, Magnetic Chips, Usher In Touch, And Much More…

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Seeking knowledge is a natural ingrained human trait.

The availability and access to information these days

Is unlike any other time in history

But seekers of knowledge must be wary

For not all information is knowledge.

And too often, information is used to mislead.

Intentionally, willfully, and with purpose

This practice is an ancient one.

Greenland isn’t green.

It got that name from a Viking in an effort to get people to join his icy settlement.

Every religion you can think of

Tries to point to one that is evidence-based,

One that in the light of scientific knowledge

Shrugged its shoulders and conceded to reality.

These are beliefs that cannot be refuted by facts

And in politics…

honesty is scarce while spin and propaganda are tools of the trade.

False beliefs that cannot be refuted by facts amongst the loyal is no accident.

It is engineered.

Why do they do it? Because it works…

Deceit is a path to money, fame,