Is the Covid Threat Exaggerated?

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adam anders: I think you're absolutely right that that it's just recent memory where the conspiracy nut jub seem to be on the side trump. But like so many of the conspiracy theories that i would find annoying, saye, from living around ithaca, all peddledlie by people who don't know what they are talking about. So this is just like u in some cases, it's just three words or two words, describing a conspiracyc theory. Can i go down the list then, and just ask you what you think were are we going to talk about? I am sure most of those are true, but am sure. Bhut they threaten the status,

David and Tamler continue their discussion of Leo Tolstoy’s 'Confession.' When we left him last time, the famous author had bottomed out just years after writing two of the greatest novels ever written. Our eventual death, Tolstoy thought, strips life of all meaning and purpose – all answers to the question “so what?”. How does he emerge from this state of suicidal depression? What role does faith or “irrational knowledge” play in his account? What’s the meaning of the cryptic dream at the conclusion of the memoir?

Plus, bombarded with this recommendation, we were going to talk about a certain article that came out in Qualitative Research about masturbating to Japanese shota comics – we even had a guest – but had to scrap it. Instead, we discuss a recent study on conspiracy theories that shows that liberals are just as likely to believe in them as conservatives. Mostly we just talk about the conspiracies.