February 2012
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Why do otherwise reasonable, rational people, who under normal conditions expect evidence for assertions, believe the most absurd claims without question?
It is a result of Pavlovian conditioning: constant exposure to particular stories, with zero exposure to any dissenting voice—far from it, any questioning is considered heresy.
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Last known WWI veteran dies at 110 →
LONDON—Florence Green, the world’s last known veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110, the care home where she lived said Tuesday.
Briar House Care Home in King’s Lynn, England, said Green died Saturday, two weeks before her 111th birthday.
Born Florence Beatrice Patterson in London on Feb. 19, 1901, she joined the Women’s Royal Air Force in September 1918 at the age of 17.
She...
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“If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the...”
– Joseph Goebbels.
