THE SKEPTIC ARENA


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Rationalists are those, whose thinking is strictly guided by the laws of logic.
Rationalists only accept as true, that which has been proven to be true,
through the application of the scientific method.



Neo's Daily Blog
(politics, religion, and science)



5/13/25

America is sending spies and agents into Greenland ...

to search for people willing to betray their nation

This is how "divide-and-conquer" works.


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5/12/25

Between them, these neighbors made ~1 million dollars ...

I am suspicious


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5/11/25

Releasing male mosquitoes to mate with females
who produce eggs that don't hatch, has been ...

remarkably successful

Since mosquitos kill more humans every year than any other animal ... this is huge.


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5/8/25

Author William Bedsworth made a remarkable connection
by comparing the Trump takeover of U.S. government to ...

both the National Hockey League & the arcade game "Whack-a-Mole"


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5/7/25

Historical rankings of U.S. presidents by ...

American political scientists


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5/5/25

Legendary "women of the sea" in South Korea freedive ...

well into their 80's


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5/4/25

Student jailed for writing an op-ed; in what used to be ...

America

Democracy is dying in darkness
as Americans bow down without a fight.
And all those gun nutz who vowed to fight tyranny when it arrived,
have been the first in line to bend the knee and kiss the ring.
They didn't fight ... they surrendered with barely a whimper.

Please excuse me while I go vomit my guts out.


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5/3/25

It is important to protect yourself from the increasing threat of ...

smoke inhalation


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5/2/25

Whenever I run out of news stories, it's time for ...

FAMOUS QUOTES

author: Anonymous

"Humanity's first sin was faith;
its first virtue was doubt "


5/1/25

Chinese researchers use abandoned American technology (thorium) ...

to make a huge breakthrough in the production of nuclear energy


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4/30/25

Bondi and Hegseth have been ordered by Trump
to look at how the U.S. military can be used in ...

domestic operations

History is repeating itself

Trump is begining to build his own "SS" ...
as our democracy dies in darkness.


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4/29/25

Whenever I run out of news stories, it's time for ...

FAMOUS QUOTES

author: Anonymous

"Faith isn’t a virtue; it is the glorification of voluntary ignorance."


4/28/25

Climate study puts a price tag on the damage done by the biggest corporations ...

$28 TRILLION


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4/27/25

So how has the economy been going for the big healthcare corporations?

Glad you asked ...




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4/26/25

Whenever I run out of news stories, it's time for ...

FAMOUS QUOTES

author: Jeffrey Tayler (writer)

"We need to elevate reasonable doubt to a virtue,
and call faith, based on no objective evidence, what it is: a vice. "


4/25/25

Coral bleaching reaches worst level ever recorded ...

84%


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4/23/25

Whenever I run out of news stories, it's time for ...

FAMOUS QUOTES

author: Benjamin Franklin (founding father)

"The way to see by faith,
is to shut the eye of reason."


4/21/25

New study finds suprising support for medical cannabis as a ...

cancer fighter


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4/20/25

Republicans shut down the foreign DISinformation office

Money quote:

"Leading Republicans have long accused
the Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference office
of silencing conservative voices."

It's pretty obvious why Republicans shut it down ...
it made it more difficult for their Russian allies to spread lies.


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4/19/25

Trump attempts to gain control over the media by ...

defunding PBS and NPR

Soon, the only news allowed will be Fox "news"
Orwell's book "1984" wasn't science fiction ...

it was prediction


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4/18/25

The guy in the middle is president Viktor Orban of Hungary



Orban followed in the Fascist footsteps of Jinping and Putin ...

and Trump is right behind

The dominoes are falling


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4/17/25

After 100 days of Trump's inhuman second term,
common sense might dictate that
MAGA would be falling apart, but instead ...

the cult is gaining strength fast

Knowing about Hitler and how he took over Germany
has not stopped the same thing from happening here.
Our government has fallen and now the people are submitting.

"Divide-and-Conquer" has been working powerfully ever since
humans first transitioned from hunter-gatherers into living in societies;
and it works just as well on modern, educated humans
as it did on barbaric, illiterate humans.

So while logic might lead us to believe the solution is education,
reality proves that education is only a minor factor.
The Oligarchs are beating us with ...

psychology


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4/16/25

As Trump approaches the completion of his takeover of America,
some Americans refuse to "bend the knee and kiss the ring."
Here is one of them ...

Leigh McGowan (aka "politics girl") issues a call-to-arms (4:48)


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4/15/25

Thom Hartmann makes it crystal clear that ...

a dictatorship is coming


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