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Exercise and Depression
By Ken Niemann Summary Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) presents a considerable challenge to public health in the United States. Estimates of lifetime prevalence are 22.9% in females and 15.1% in males and the condition is likely increasing among younger cohorts. Successful treatment does not seem to increase with rising costs…
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The Toxicology of Oxycontin
By Ken Niemann Oxycodone is a synthetic opiate derivative classified as a Schedule II Controlled Substance and about 59 tons of the drug were consumed in the United States in 2010. Each year, a growing number of deaths occur from semi-synthetic opioids such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine. This essay will…
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Philosophy
Why I’m Not A Buddhist
By Ken Niemann Many Americans are embracing Buddhism for a number of reasons. Chief among them, I suspect, is that this religion is just plain fashionable and is largely unencumbered by the moral and logical constraints found elsewhere (i.e. in Natural Law). The definitive source for a critique of Oriental religions…
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Intelligent Design
Revolutionary: The Mystery of Molecular Machines
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ToSEAj2V0s[/embed] See Also: Giving Up Darwin Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information That Is Specified Independently of DNA Evolution: A View from the 21st Century , Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design The genetic code is a highly complicated flow of information that often resides outside…
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History
On the Philosophy of Recovery: Reason, Meaning, & Logotherapy
By Ken Niemann Nihilism is the logical ends of a universe devoid of an objective, transcendent, immaterial Good that placed a value on human beings. Viennese Psychiatrist and Holocaust Survivor Viktor Frankl brilliantly understood the necessity of meaning and value in one’s life for mental health but was largely confused…
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Bioethics
Note Bene: Why Neuroscience Points to a Soul
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqHrpBPdtSI[/embed] Why Neuroscience Points to a SoulThis is fascinating stuff that flies in the face of the viewpoint treasured and defended by prestige academia and the mainstream media. Continue Reading Programming without a Programmer?If DNA is a code, who programmed it? Author Stephen Meyer explores the answer in this…
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History
Outstanding Lectures By Dinesh D’Souza
Highly Recommended: Death of A Nation The Enemies Within [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZekY2ohU1Y[/embed] [embed]https://youtu.be/mXP2EdqJ16s?t=4m18s[/embed]
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Philosophy
Book Review: From Darwin to Hitler
By Ken Niemann Under Hitler, 9 million Gentile and 6 million Jewish civilians were slaughtered in the name of Philosophical Naturalism and Social Darwinism. While most Darwinists rightly claim that a Darwinist does not have to be a Social Darwinist, within the Darwinian worldview there is also no reason not…
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Religion
Zarathushtrian influences on Judaism & Christianity?
-Ken Niemann Some claim Zarathushtrian antecedents to the major doctrines of Judaism and Christianity so today might be a good day to address the topic. Below are a number of what I believe to be superficial similarities typically offered to demonstrate a Zarathrustrian influence on Judaism : 1) A supreme creator God…
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Bioethics
Science Uprising Series
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History
Book Review: The Nazi Connection Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
By Ken Niemann “National Socialism is nothing but applied Biology”- Fritz Lenz Introduction Stefan Kuhl’s The Nazi Connection1, is an international account of the eugenics movement in pre and post Nazi Germany. The book arose from his work with the mentally handicapped in Munich and a deep concern for their…
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Law & Politics
Studies Find No Evidence That Assault Weapon Bans Reduce Homicide Rates
While these initiatives are “common sense” to advocates, if one takes the time to examine the data and evidence, it becomes abundantly clear that gun control in this form will do little to reduce gun violence Mass shootings are unconscionable acts of violence and are the most acutely disturbing form…
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Culture
Albrecht: Cultural Marxists Of The Frankfurt School Subverted American Education
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLoG9zBvvLQ[/embed] Paul Joseph Watson kills it here as well: [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyLUIXWnrC0[/embed] [embed]https://youtu.be/8c_vmKnrezc?t=31s[/embed] See Also: Karl Marx: The Worst Man In Modern History How The Cultural Marxists Of The Frankfurt School Subverted American Education zerohedge.com The Leipzig Connection How The Cultural Marxists Of The Frankfurt School Subverted American Education Via Beau…
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Intelligent Design
DNA and the Flow of Information
See Also: Wells: Homology in Biology" A Problem for Naturalistic Science Michael Denton in Bio-Complexity Design of Life- General Notes Membrane Patterns Carry Ontogenetic Information Evolution: A View from the 21st Century , Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design Giving Up Darwin [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrO_oOJWyL8[/embed] The genetic…
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Bioethics
On the Philosophy of Recovery Part II: The Logos
By Ken Niemann Step Three: “We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we Understood Him.” Understood by many as the Queen of the Sciences, Philosophy has a rich tradition of influencing the field of Psychology. Ryan and Deci, for…
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Law & Politics
Murder and homicide rates before and after gun bans
More information is available in chapters 2 and 10 of More Guns, Less Crime (University of Chicago Press, 2010, third edition). [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzbdKxBztHg[/embed] See Also: FBI Data Shows Knives Kill More People Than Rifles Red Flag Gun Laws Are Rooted In Communist Methods Of Oppression Studies Find No Evidence That Assault…
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Culture
Debunking White Privilege
[embed]https://youtu.be/AoHAG9UFaKI[/embed] [embed]https://youtu.be/fxDO7_C8gy0[/embed] My sincere gratitude is extended to the gentleman in the first video - this is the exact sort of thing that will bring healing rather than ever further division by Cultural Marxists.
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Law & Politics
Chinese Social Credit Score Prevents 2.5 Million “Discredited Entities” From Buying Plane Tickets
Coming to the west soon. Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com - August 19, 2019 The Communist Chinese government is bragging about its social credit system preventing 2.5 million “discredited entities” from purchasing plane tickets and 90,000 people from buying high speed train tickets in the month of July alone. “China…
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Culture
SJW Indoctrination: Kids Brainwashed to Hate Liberal White Women
What's so funny about this video is that they are including white liberal women in their diatribe. So if you are a white liberal woman, you're still on their shitlist. [embed]https://youtu.be/KhVbv7qpBKY[/embed]
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Culture
Weimar Ideal Defines Mental Health
Allow me to share extended quotes from two talented Wiki authors. The first is with regards to an entry for Friedrich Schiller who penned the lyrics to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (originally, Ode to Freedom). “He elaborated Christoph Martin Wieland's concept of die schöne Seele (the beautiful soul), a human…
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Culture
Socrates on Intellectual Freedom
Socrates was charged with corrupting the youth of Athens with his teachings. The Court offered to free him if he would recant his teachings before the youth, but he chose the poison Hemlock instead because the truth was that important to him. Many think this event launched the discipline of…
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Economics
Sunstein’s Libertarian Paternalism
By Ken Niemann Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? -Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775. Social architect Cass Sunstein is a former Obama White House regulatory czar (having held the position of Administrator of the Office of Information…
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Culture
Marxists Bring “Newspeak”
See also: Orwell’s Newspeak Is Coming To A Campus Near You Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/29/orwells-newspeak-is-coming-to-a-campus-near-you/#ixzz3kMtH1m5C Newspeak, Wikipedia Newspeak is the fictional language in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian state Oceania as a tool to limit freedom of thought,…
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Philosophy
Criticisms of Schopenhaur
Some criticisms of Schopenhaur: 1) His epistemology is self- referentially refuting. That is, like Kant, he is claiming to know with his mind that reality cannot be known with the mind. He steps outside of his private reality and makes objective knowledge claims about the noumenal world, the real world…
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Culture
Facebook is a Modern Horror Story
by SaintSal | February 2, 2015 Salim Virani - creating practical ways for founders to help each other. Facebook has always been slightly worse than all the other tech companies with dodgy privacy records, but now, it’s in it’s own league. Getting off isn’t just necessary to protect yourself, it’s…
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Economics
Lessons from Winnie the Pooh
By Ken Niemann For many of us, British Author A.A. Milne charmed and delighted our childhood with tales of a lovable, but often very confused and naïve character named Winnie the Pooh. In one account of his adventures, Pooh finds some tracks in the snow and, surmising it might be…
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Law & Politics
Clinton, Zuckerberg, Baldwin, Among Long List of Epstein Pedophiles
See also: Complete List Of Clinton Associates Who Allegedly Died Mysteriously Or Committed Suicide Before Testimony Former CIA Spook: "Russian Hoax Coup & Epstein Are Interlocked" "Heads Must Roll": Outrage Grows Over Epstein's Mysterious Suicide As the Jeffrey Epstein case continues to unfold, a laundry list of celebrities, business magnates…
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Evironmentalism
Climate change hoax COLLAPSES
Natural News: Climate change hoax COLLAPSES as new science finds human activity has virtually zero impact on global temperatures. The climate change hoax has collapsed. A devastating series of research papers has just been published, revealing that human activity can account for no more than a .01°C rise in global…
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Culture
Delete Facebook
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Bioethics
BMJ: Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in US
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=278&v=KxUfPBhipLA[/embed] Medical Error Is Third Leading Cause of Death in US Medical error is the third leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease and cancer, according to findings published today in BMJ. As such, medical errors should be a top priority for research and resources, say authors…
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Bioethics
Massive Victory for Free Will
Neuroscience Research: Does Free Will Actually Exist? Free will might seem like a given to most of us, but neuroscience researchers have historically found that the evidence to support the idea that we have free will is a bit murky. You might reach for the spoon in your bowl of…
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Bioethics
Rothbard: What is the Proper Way to Study Man?
The key to scientism is its denial of the existence of individual consciousness and will Murray N. Rothbard | Mises.org - June 6, 2016 Image Credits: Leonardo Da Vinci. In our proper condemnation of scientism in the study of man, we should not make the mistake of dismissing science as…
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Philosophy
Against Fideism
My attempt here is to offer a brief survey of fideism in the Christian church and elucidate it's deviation from orthodoxy and just plain common sense. It will be shown that, while often well intentioned fideism requires gross distortion of scriptural content and actually serves to undermine the nature of…
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Culture
Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag
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Health
Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
From PLOS Medicine: Citation: Ioannidis JPA (2005) Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. PLoS Med 2(8): e124. Abstract There is increasing concern that most current published research findings are false. The probability that a research claim is true may depend on study power and bias, the number of other…
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Mental Health
Negativland – a home for all findings in psychology
Abstract Psychology has been historically plagued by the under-reporting of both replications and null findings. The avoidance of these core ingredients of scientific practice means that the psychology literature is unquestionably distorted. The bias in psychology is pervasive and systemic, afflicting researchers, reviewers, editors and journals, all of whom are…
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Health
PainScience.com: What works for pain, what doesn’t, and why? Science-based reviews
From: Pain Science.com Complete articles index. Articles about How Pain Works There are countless treatments for people in pain. Scams are everywhere, but so is evidence-based hope. Get started with a big compilation of pain survival tips, with links to dozens more articles about popular DIY treatments like self-massage, ice…
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Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging
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Health
A Salute To Peele on Genetic Freedom in Addiction Theory
Stanton Peele Writing for The Raw Story Adam Cohen’s book, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, chronicles the horrors of the eugenics movement. It focuses on the 1927 Supreme Court decision in Buck v. Bell, in which an 8-1 majority upheld forced sterilization. Oliver Wendell Holmes…
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Mental Health
BPS: Is Mindfulness A Panacea Or Overhyped And Potentially Problematic?
Repost from BPS: This is Episode 15 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. Download here. Click here for audio: Episode 15 Mindfulness is everywhere these days, but is it really as beneficial as it’s often made out to be? Our presenter Ginny Smith hears…
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Health
“Nutrition Interventions Amidst an Opioid Crisis” David Wiss MS RDN
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtI6vwBsYKA[/embed] [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbVcseHCqaY[/embed] A Biopsychosocial Overview of the Opioid Crisis The Role of Nutrition in Addiction
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Health
The Flawed Logic of Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandates
By the Children’s Health Defense Team January 31, 2019 Summary: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that newborn babies receive the hepatitis B vaccine on their first day of life. The infants, toddlers and young children receiving this vaccine face little to…
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Quinn: Distracting, Disturbing, Deceiving, & Deluding Ourselves To Death
Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does…
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Culture
Watson: Modern Art is STILL Sh*t
See also: Why Is Modern Art So Uninspiring? Rape of the Masters [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IoW7pA1-yc[/embed]
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Intelligent Design
Dr. Meyer’s next book, The Return of the God Hypothesis
David Klinghoffer | @d_klinghoffer January 2, 2019, 11:56 AM There’s still time to register for the January 18-19 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith. The event will be headlined by an entertaining Socrates in the City conversation between Stephen Meyer and Eric Metaxas about Dr. Meyer’s next book, The Return…
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Culture
Phoenix: Social Justice Warriors and the 7 Major Negative Emotions
[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbA9ALOrHaA&feature=youtu.be[/embed] December 31, 2018 By Paul Phoenix American Thinker In Napoleon Hill's classic 1937 self-help book Think & Grow Rich, there is a section within the "Subconscious Mind" chapter that explores the so-called seven major positive emotions (desire, faith, love, sex, enthusiasm, romance, hope) and the seven major negative emotions…
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Culture
Mount St. Mary’s College Served As A Hub For Marxist Extremism
American Spectator: The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet find themselves in a La La Land scandal. It was reported recently that a couple of nuns out in Southern California had ripped off the Catholic school where they worked for many years to the tune of at least $500,000. They…
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Law & Politics
Zhang Shoucheng Was Being Touted For A Nobel Prize in Physics; Why Did He Kill Himself?
Authored by Steven Mosher via The Epoch Times, On Nov. 20 President Trump’s trade advisor, Robert Lighthizer, issued an exhaustive report on China’s efforts to beg, borrow, and steal U.S. intellectual property. Eleven days later, on Dec. 1, Stanford University Professor Zhang Shoucheng, who had been collaborating with the Beijing regime’s drive…