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Seven Brief Lessons on Psychics: Great Books That Never Were 🔮
The science-for-beginners book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2015) is a book. The mumbo jumbo within it was written by physicist Carlo Rovelli to help stupid people understand science.
Not that much needs understanding! For science is mumbo jumbo. The berserk delusions of types such as Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger and his DUMB thought experiments about cats. Pfft.
Anyway, after 2015 a bunch of psychics began cashing in on Rovelli’s book. The best is Seven Brief Lessons on Psychics (2016), which is a superb work and not at all mumbo jumbo.
Get Yourself Deluded by Seven Brief Lessons On Psychics
“Ever since we discovered the Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.
That’s where I come in. I’m Bombastic Barbara, the greatest psychic in the North West of England. Want the mysteries of the Universe decoding? Come to me, cross my palms with silver (pre-payments via bank transfer only), and I’ll read your tarot cards.”
And so begins the greatest work of science ever written (according to many psychics). Written by psychic Bombastic Barbara. who is 67 and lives in Bolton of Greater Manchester, where she performs palm readings from her living room. As she explains in chapter 1 (Why You’re a Dickhead and What to do About It):
“Thousands have flocked from around the world to see me. Had one bloke from Bangladesh rock up at the front door, unable to speak a word of English, but desperate for me words of wisdom teeth. I read his palms. Sadly, they said he only had 35 seconds to live. I told him, but the stupid fucker didn’t understand a word I said.”
She goes on, in frequently rambling and largely incoherent fashion, to list the seven psychic truths. Although she gets a bit confused here and doesn’t list them chapter by chapter. For example, the seventh lesson is second to appear, with the first in last.
To remove any confusion, we’ve listed them out here in what we think, by intensive critical thinking, to be the right order. The:
- Architecture of the Vague
- Curvature of the Guess
- Quantum Mechanics of the Delusional
- Removal of Reality With a Crystal Ball
- Gravitational Pull of the Grift
- Black Hole of Accountability
- The Delights of Denial
The lessons are full of rambling madness that makes little sense, but appeals to our sense of rational abandonment. After all, why listen to harsh reality when you can have Bombastic Barbara waxing lyrical about how you’re called John and will win the lottery in 2185?
We like those odds. We like this book. We like living in a bubble of delusion.
🔮 Free Crystal Ball With 2026 Reissue 🔮
For the 10th anniversary of the work, the book has been reissued! Everyone who buys a copy will find it’s:
- Signed by Bombastic Barbara
- Accompanied by a COMPLETELY FREE crystal ball
We contacted Bombastic Barbara for a quote about this wonderful occasion, but instead she gave us a tarot reading and, apparently, the Professional Moron office in Manchester will be struck by a 30-mile-wide asteroid within the next 78 hours.
We’ll keep an eye out for that, then! Thanks for the heads up, Barbara.
#Books #clairvoyance #delusion #Humor #Literature #parapsychology #Physics #psuedoscience #Psychics #Reading #Satire #Science #Silly -
Seven Brief Lessons on Psychics: Great Books That Never Were 🔮
The science-for-beginners book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (2015) is a book. The mumbo jumbo within it was written by physicist Carlo Rovelli to help stupid people understand science.
Not that much needs understanding! For science is mumbo jumbo. The berserk delusions of types such as Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger and his DUMB thought experiments about cats. Pfft.
Anyway, after 2015 a bunch of psychics began cashing in on Rovelli’s book. The best is Seven Brief Lessons on Psychics (2016), which is a superb work and not at all mumbo jumbo.
Get Yourself Deluded by Seven Brief Lessons On Psychics
“Ever since we discovered the Earth is round and turns like a mad spinning-top, we have understood that reality is not as it appears to us.
That’s where I come in. I’m Bombastic Barbara, the greatest psychic in the North West of England. Want the mysteries of the Universe decoding? Come to me, cross my palms with silver (pre-payments via bank transfer only), and I’ll read your tarot cards.”
And so begins the greatest work of science ever written (according to many psychics). Written by psychic Bombastic Barbara. who is 67 and lives in Bolton of Greater Manchester, where she performs palm readings from her living room. As she explains in chapter 1 (Why You’re a Dickhead and What to do About It):
“Thousands have flocked from around the world to see me. Had one bloke from Bangladesh rock up at the front door, unable to speak a word of English, but desperate for me words of wisdom teeth. I read his palms. Sadly, they said he only had 35 seconds to live. I told him, but the stupid fucker didn’t understand a word I said.”
She goes on, in frequently rambling and largely incoherent fashion, to list the seven psychic truths. Although she gets a bit confused here and doesn’t list them chapter by chapter. For example, the seventh lesson is second to appear, with the first in last.
To remove any confusion, we’ve listed them out here in what we think, by intensive critical thinking, to be the right order. The:
- Architecture of the Vague
- Curvature of the Guess
- Quantum Mechanics of the Delusional
- Removal of Reality With a Crystal Ball
- Gravitational Pull of the Grift
- Black Hole of Accountability
- The Delights of Denial
The lessons are full of rambling madness that makes little sense, but appeals to our sense of rational abandonment. After all, why listen to harsh reality when you can have Bombastic Barbara waxing lyrical about how you’re called John and will win the lottery in 2185?
We like those odds. We like this book. We like living in a bubble of delusion.
🔮 Free Crystal Ball With 2026 Reissue 🔮
For the 10th anniversary of the work, the book has been reissued! Everyone who buys a copy will find it’s:
- Signed by Bombastic Barbara
- Accompanied by a COMPLETELY FREE crystal ball
We contacted Bombastic Barbara for a quote about this wonderful occasion, but instead she gave us a tarot reading and, apparently, the Professional Moron office in Manchester will be struck by a 30-mile-wide asteroid within the next 78 hours.
We’ll keep an eye out for that, then! Thanks for the heads up, Barbara.
#Books #clairvoyance #delusion #Humor #Literature #parapsychology #Physics #psuedoscience #Psychics #Reading #Satire #Science #Silly -
No Ordinary Beths: Great Books That Never Were 🔥
Following on from our review of Molly Conisbee’s No Ordinary Deaths (2025), it intrigued us to learn there’s a 1889 pseudo-science work called No Ordinary Beths.
Written by the author Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III and published by his wealthy publisher uncle Sir Jeffery Rupertson Twistleton Charles Jeffery III, it explores the topic that human females (and some human males) called Beth have supernatural powers and are a grave threat to the future of humanity. This family-friendly tome makes for great bedtime reading for kids!
On the Peril of Beautiful Dames in No Ordinary Beths
Okay, so this is a weird book and one that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. But under the modern gaze of 2026, it’s actually quite amusing in its rambling oddness.
The book is written in a pompous, prolixity heavy style befitting elitist sorts from the 19th century. Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III was extremely well educated and had the biggest vocabulary in all of England (or, at least, so he claimed). But his obsession with the Beths of this world takes the literary form of this type of thing.
“To be possessed of every virtue requisite for the elevation of the female mind, and yet to reject the hand of a superior suitor upon the mere, trivial technicality of prior wedlock, is a contradiction that can only be explained by the presence of the Dark Arts. It was during the summer of the year 1875; an era, one notes with chagrin, before the current decay of our great social institutions had fully taken root, that one first chanced to encounter a creature bearing the name of Beth.
She was, one must freely concede, a woman of most commendable and conventional aesthetic facial symmetry. Recognising that one’s own exceptional station, unparalleled wit, exceptional handsomidity, and remarkably lofty spirit would serve as the ultimate elevation to her otherwise ordinary existence, one condescended to offer her my hand in holy matrimony without delay. It was an act of profound generosity on one’s part, driven by the sheer nobility of one’s character. Astonishingly, the woman displayed an audacity so profound, and a vanity so entirely unbecoming of her gender, as to refuse my magnanimous suit. Her defence for this egregious slight? The absurdly pedantic protestation that one was already legally bound in matrimony to another! This may be correct, by all modern standards, but a lady does not turneth down the pursuit of a man of one’s standing. Ever!
It was in that singular, chilling moment of rejection that the scales fell from one’s eyes. Such a defiance of natural order and superior masculine being could not be attributed to mere feminine whim. No, sirs; t’was the unmistakable mark of Witchcraft. By logical extension, and through rigorous deductive reasoning befitting a gentleman of one’s formal higher education, one had arrived at an absolute truth: All women who answer to the name of Beth are, in fact, practitioners of the Occult.”
There are 761 pages of that type of thing. Translated into modern English, the above paragraph reads as this.
“I met this bird called Beth last week. She was hot as shit, so I demanded she marry me for my charming personality, extreme intelligence, and 10/10 looksmaxxed jawline. She was arrogant enough to REJECT ME when I mentioned I’m already married! FFS!! That’s when I knew she’s a bitch!!! lol roflmao. This topic needed exploring, so I downed a can of Red Bull, had a vape, booted up TikTok, and went off on one about how women called Beth are tramps. It went viral, got three million shares, and got me a modelling contract.”
Generally, No Ordinary Beths comes across as a wildly paranoid work about a man baby whom was spurned by human females by the, aforementioned, name.
We did some digging into historical records and found Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III was, indeed, rejected by every woman by the name of Beth whom he proposed to (a grand total of 3,124 women of the name of Beth).
Quite what Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III thought he was doing we don’t know, but he should have realised after around the 500th rejection this game wasn’t working out for him. Silly fool.
In 1901, he eventually gave up on it and married a woman called Belle. There’s a Be in the name so, we guess, that’s some sort of consolation for the crazy damn fool.
#Beth #Books #Feminism #Humor #Lifestyle #Literature #masculinity #psuedoscience #Reading #Satire #satirical #Sexism -
No Ordinary Beths: Great Books That Never Were 🔥
Following on from our review of Molly Conisbee’s No Ordinary Deaths (2025), it intrigued us to learn there’s a 1889 pseudo-science work called No Ordinary Beths.
Written by the author Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III and published by his wealthy publisher uncle Sir Jeffery Rupertson Twistleton Charles Jeffery III, it explores the topic that human females (and some human males) called Beth have supernatural powers and are a grave threat to the future of humanity. This family-friendly tome makes for great bedtime reading for kids!
On the Peril of Beautiful Dames in No Ordinary Beths
Okay, so this is a weird book and one that doesn’t make a great deal of sense. But under the modern gaze of 2026, it’s actually quite amusing in its rambling oddness.
The book is written in a pompous, prolixity heavy style befitting elitist sorts from the 19th century. Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III was extremely well educated and had the biggest vocabulary in all of England (or, at least, so he claimed). But his obsession with the Beths of this world takes the literary form of this type of thing.
“To be possessed of every virtue requisite for the elevation of the female mind, and yet to reject the hand of a superior suitor upon the mere, trivial technicality of prior wedlock, is a contradiction that can only be explained by the presence of the Dark Arts. It was during the summer of the year 1875; an era, one notes with chagrin, before the current decay of our great social institutions had fully taken root, that one first chanced to encounter a creature bearing the name of Beth.
She was, one must freely concede, a woman of most commendable and conventional aesthetic facial symmetry. Recognising that one’s own exceptional station, unparalleled wit, exceptional handsomidity, and remarkably lofty spirit would serve as the ultimate elevation to her otherwise ordinary existence, one condescended to offer her my hand in holy matrimony without delay. It was an act of profound generosity on one’s part, driven by the sheer nobility of one’s character. Astonishingly, the woman displayed an audacity so profound, and a vanity so entirely unbecoming of her gender, as to refuse my magnanimous suit. Her defence for this egregious slight? The absurdly pedantic protestation that one was already legally bound in matrimony to another! This may be correct, by all modern standards, but a lady does not turneth down the pursuit of a man of one’s standing. Ever!
It was in that singular, chilling moment of rejection that the scales fell from one’s eyes. Such a defiance of natural order and superior masculine being could not be attributed to mere feminine whim. No, sirs; t’was the unmistakable mark of Witchcraft. By logical extension, and through rigorous deductive reasoning befitting a gentleman of one’s formal higher education, one had arrived at an absolute truth: All women who answer to the name of Beth are, in fact, practitioners of the Occult.”
There are 761 pages of that type of thing. Translated into modern English, the above paragraph reads as this.
“I met this bird called Beth last week. She was hot as shit, so I demanded she marry me for my charming personality, extreme intelligence, and 10/10 looksmaxxed jawline. She was arrogant enough to REJECT ME when I mentioned I’m already married! FFS!! That’s when I knew she’s a bitch!!! lol roflmao. This topic needed exploring, so I downed a can of Red Bull, had a vape, booted up TikTok, and went off on one about how women called Beth are tramps. It went viral, got three million shares, and got me a modelling contract.”
Generally, No Ordinary Beths comes across as a wildly paranoid work about a man baby whom was spurned by human females by the, aforementioned, name.
We did some digging into historical records and found Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III was, indeed, rejected by every woman by the name of Beth whom he proposed to (a grand total of 3,124 women of the name of Beth).
Quite what Sir Charles Rupertson Twistleton Jeffery III thought he was doing we don’t know, but he should have realised after around the 500th rejection this game wasn’t working out for him. Silly fool.
In 1901, he eventually gave up on it and married a woman called Belle. There’s a Be in the name so, we guess, that’s some sort of consolation for the crazy damn fool.
#Beth #Books #Feminism #Humor #Lifestyle #Literature #masculinity #psuedoscience #Reading #Satire #satirical #Sexism -
Video recommendation!
Two of the best science communicators I know of, Doctor Mike and Dr. Steven Novella, having an in-depth conversation about #Skepticism, #AI, #Vaccines, #Experts, #Science, #Communication, #SocialMedia, #Medicine, #PsuedoScience and lots more.
Extremely interesting long-form conversation with lots of useful and practical points – well worth the time!
2h39m
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Video recommendation!
Two of the best science communicators I know of, Doctor Mike and Dr. Steven Novella, having an in-depth conversation about #Skepticism, #AI, #Vaccines, #Experts, #Science, #Communication, #SocialMedia, #Medicine, #PsuedoScience and lots more.
Extremely interesting long-form conversation with lots of useful and practical points – well worth the time!
2h39m
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Oh I just love just how wildly incorrect this generative graphology analysis is here.
And I quote:
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Based on the principles of graphology, the following can be observed from the handwriting sample:Slant: The consistent rightward slant of the letters suggests a person who is likely friendly, empathetic, and open to new experiences and meeting new people.
Size: The letters appear to be of medium size, which often indicates a well-adjusted individual with a balanced outlook on life.
Pressure: The medium to heavy pen pressure could indicate a person with significant energy, strong emotions, or a strong commitment to their endeavors.
Shape: The relatively rounded shape of the letters suggests a relaxed and open personality.
Spacing: Consistent spacing between words may indicate a person who is organized and methodical in their thinking and approach.
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I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has met his match as the biggest killer of the Homo Sapiens era.
How incredibly stupid is this? SHOW us how you came to this conclusion, and provide us with open, peer-reviewed, papers that back up your claims.
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I think Thomas Midgley Jr. has met his match as the biggest killer of the Homo Sapiens era.
How incredibly stupid is this? SHOW us how you came to this conclusion, and provide us with open, peer-reviewed, papers that back up your claims.
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(instead of agreeing that we don't fully grok our relationship to #information, #Elon and the author buy into this crap: #psuedoscience)
“If information is a key component of everything in the universe, it would make sense that a vast computer somewhere is in control.
“This approach, where excess information is removed, resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing waste code to save storage space and optimise power consumption.”
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(instead of agreeing that we don't fully grok our relationship to #information, #Elon and the author buy into this crap: #psuedoscience)
“If information is a key component of everything in the universe, it would make sense that a vast computer somewhere is in control.
“This approach, where excess information is removed, resembles the process of a computer deleting or compressing waste code to save storage space and optimise power consumption.”
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If ancient aliens taught early humans how to do everything, then how did the ancient aliens learn all that? Did an even more ancient race of aliens teach the ancient aliens?
Is it ancient aliens all the way down??
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If ancient aliens taught early humans how to do everything, then how did the ancient aliens learn all that? Did an even more ancient race of aliens teach the ancient aliens?
Is it ancient aliens all the way down??
#aliens #psuedoscience -
Andrew Conru, a “Seattle businessman who made his fortune from dating websites,” gave $1,000,000+ to the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF).
HDF “is part of a movement to rehabilitate so-called race science as a topic of open debate. Labelled scientific racism by mainstream academics, it seeks to prove biological differences between races such as higher average IQ or a tendency to commit crime.”
TY, The Guardian
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Andrew Conru, a “Seattle businessman who made his fortune from dating websites,” gave $1,000,000+ to the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF).
HDF “is part of a movement to rehabilitate so-called race science as a topic of open debate. Labelled scientific racism by mainstream academics, it seeks to prove biological differences between races such as higher average IQ or a tendency to commit crime.”
TY, The Guardian
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Texas will execute Robert Roberson on October 17 for a crime that never happened, based on discredited pseudo-science, and ignoring Texas' "junk science law" meant to prevent such use of flawed forensics and miscarriages of justice
https://undark.org/2024/08/06/texas-junk-science-law-not-keeping-up-with-science
#innocenceproject #deathpenalty #Texas #RobertRoberson #autistic #humanrights #capitalpunishment #TexasDefenderService #psuedoscience #junkscience #law #murder #crime #justice #execution
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Texas will execute Robert Roberson on October 17 for a crime that never happened, based on discredited pseudo-science, and ignoring Texas' "junk science law" meant to prevent such use of flawed forensics and miscarriages of justice
https://undark.org/2024/08/06/texas-junk-science-law-not-keeping-up-with-science
#innocenceproject #deathpenalty #Texas #RobertRoberson #autistic #humanrights #capitalpunishment #TexasDefenderService #psuedoscience #junkscience #law #murder #crime #justice #execution
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Could quantum physics be the key that unlocks the secrets of human behavior?
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-quantum-physics-key-secrets-human.html
<< one of the worst physics articles I have ever read in a reasonable source.A more accurate title would be "Since psychologically relevant situations are not modelled well by basic probability equations should we jump to compex equations that were formulated to describe interactions on the very smallest of scales.
The answer to both titles is: "of course not".
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Could quantum physics be the key that unlocks the secrets of human behavior?
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-quantum-physics-key-secrets-human.html
<< one of the worst physics articles I have ever read in a reasonable source.A more accurate title would be "Since psychologically relevant situations are not modelled well by basic probability equations should we jump to compex equations that were formulated to describe interactions on the very smallest of scales.
The answer to both titles is: "of course not".
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The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery—it’s empathy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-key-to-fighting-pseudoscience-isnt-mockery-its-empathy/
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The key to fighting pseudoscience isn’t mockery—it’s empathy
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/the-key-to-fighting-pseudoscience-isnt-mockery-its-empathy/
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The #ConspiracyTheorists Who Think All #Celebrities Are #Secretly #Trans.
#Transvestigation, or “#elite #gender #inversion”, combines #phrenology, #psuedoscience and #newage #woowoo in one #transphobic #package.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
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The #ConspiracyTheorists Who Think All #Celebrities Are #Secretly #Trans.
#Transvestigation, or “#elite #gender #inversion”, combines #phrenology, #psuedoscience and #newage #woowoo in one #transphobic #package.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #ConspiracyTheories #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia
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To my Jets fan friends: Sorry you lost the guy who was supposed to be your savior. But I’m not sorry it happened to #AaronRodgers. Maybe I shouldn’t be happy about his misfortune, but he spread so much dangerous bullshit that I can’t help it. Funny how his healing guru can’t fix it.
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From the archives: Twitching sticks – the (pseudo)science of dowsing | Anthony Garrett
From the archives in 1989, Anthony Garrett takes a look at the science - or otherwise - of dowsing and water divination
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/09/from-the-archives-twitching-sticks-the-pseudoscience-of-dowsing/
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From the archives: Twitching sticks – the (pseudo)science of dowsing | Anthony Garrett
From the archives in 1989, Anthony Garrett takes a look at the science - or otherwise - of dowsing and water divination
https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2023/09/from-the-archives-twitching-sticks-the-pseudoscience-of-dowsing/
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My mom emails me so much fake news and conspiracy theory nonsense everyday that I made a mail rule to automatically move any of her email to a folder. I’ve asked her to stop but she doesn’t. 🙄
This rule has been running for a couple of years. I have hundreds if not thousands of these by now. I never open any of it but as you can see there’s a lot of wild stuff. This is just from this week. #fakenews #psuedoscience #skeptic
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My mom emails me so much fake news and conspiracy theory nonsense everyday that I made a mail rule to automatically move any of her email to a folder. I’ve asked her to stop but she doesn’t. 🙄
This rule has been running for a couple of years. I have hundreds if not thousands of these by now. I never open any of it but as you can see there’s a lot of wild stuff. This is just from this week. #fakenews #psuedoscience #skeptic
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Negative #ion therapy is useless at best and in some cases potentially lethal. I watched one of this guy's other videos because my mom started buying all kinds of crazy crap.
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Enjoy a new essay from the iilluminaughtii:
#iilluminaughtii #breadtube #essay #junkscience #aliens #monsters #historychannel #discoverychannel #psuedoscience #greed
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Enjoy a new essay from the iilluminaughtii:
#iilluminaughtii #breadtube #essay #junkscience #aliens #monsters #historychannel #discoverychannel #psuedoscience #greed
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Scams, Sasquatch, and the Supernatural Full Lecture
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Scams, Sasquatch, and the Supernatural Full Lecture
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Found a pretty interesting article about how the story of Atlantis became popular and introducing some dangers of pseudoarchaeology:https://www.iflscience.com/why-archaeologists-are-not-looking-for-atlantis-66263
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COVID-19 Natural Immunity
The truth is...
If you become infected with the COVID-19 virus and don't recover, you are 11 times less likely to become reinfected.
#antivax #antimask #mask #vaccine #psuedoscience #covid19 #vax
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