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10/03/2018 / By JD Heyes

Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford wrote science article in 2008 on use of “self-hypnosis” to “create artificial situations”

Late Monday The New York Times published what it no doubt thought was a “bombshell” story claiming that in 1985, a young Brett Kavanaugh once threw a beer in someone’s face which led to a fight. Noted The Daily Caller in reporting the story: Chad Ludington, a former Yale basketball player who socialized with Kavanaugh, said, “On […]

11/27/2017 / By Russel Davis

It’s all propaganda: New research suggests media coverage about disease outbreaks is designed to control what you think and remember about the disease

A study published in the journal Psychological Science, the flagship publication of the Association for Psychological Science, reveals that mass media coverage and personal anxiety influence people about the facts they both remember and forget during a disease outbreak. “The starting point for our study was the exaggerated coverage of Ebola in 2014 despite the absence of any serious […]

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