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Sifting Truth From Hearsay

The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins

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The Misinformation of Social Media

Algorithms that dictate what we see at the top of our feed on social media are intentionally tweaked to favor content that is likely to get us to engage. I think it's true that we are speciesist. It's not he didn't invent the word but he's one of his favourite words in that we treat the human species as though it was absolutely unique. We could no longer regard humans as being morally completely on their own so something like the abortion debate where because a fetus is human it is regarded as infinitely more valuable than an adult pig say just by virtue of being human. If all the intermediates between us and pigs were alive they say they were discovered in Africa we would have

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