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Virginia Heffernan: Edge, Jeffrey Epstein, & the Intellectual Dark Web
Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation
The Problems of Edge
i think that the real way to get at the problems of edge is to unveil its sophistry. Unveil the fact that most of these guys are like hasbins and dilettantes who are writing really skatchy stuff and calling it science. They might have a background in social science, but they're not hard scientists. And rupert sheldrake, as you mention, jona larer, their intellectual dishonesty, plagiarism, markd hawser has just revealed time and time again,. Not to mention their abuse and their bad ideology. So my three points on the triangle for cults, they need to have fraud, financial fraud and other kinds of fraud.
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