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Published Letters: 1358 Editor's Choice: 75
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OH anonymous please
[Read the article: The religious state of Islamic science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]About how evolutionary psychology is an anti-feminist science.
Can you even prove that evoutionary psychology is a science? Where do they get all of their psychological data on prehistorical humans, for example?
They don't have any data in that field. The field mostly consists of male nerds who can't understand women on their own so they make up convincing sounding explanations using what they believe to be true about human evolution.
For example, ten years ago I remember an evolutionary psychologist explaining in Atlantic Monthly that women evolved to dislike being raped because rapists made unreliable fathers.
The problem is -- rape trauma has been observed to afflict EVERY PERSON who gets raped, independently of gender and reproductive status. Pre-puberty, or post-menopause, male or female, rape is a traumatizing event.
And this was a well-established fact ten years ago. The only people who didn't seem to be aware of it were the "scientists" working in evolutionary psychology.
With charlatans like that calling themselves scientists, it's a miracle that more people don't reject science altogether.
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The article on science and religion I WISH I could see in Salon
[Read the article: The religious state of Islamic science]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I see article after article mentioning PTSD in Salon and the science is ALWAYS very carefully avoided or mystified as some deep dark puzzle that scientists don't really understand.
The experiments that link PTSD to defective cannabinoid processing are quite compelling and quite reproducible.
IF it's BAD for Muslims to ignore science, then it's also BAD for Salon to keep treating PTSD as some kind of scientific mystery.
It's not a scientific mystery any more, but admitting this would open up a can of worms that I think terrifies both conservatives and progressives.
You see, if physical and mental problems result from faulty cannabinoid genes, then that opens up the possibility that cannabis prohibition is a weak form of attempted genocide. We're effectively trying to wipe out the segment of the population with defective cannabinoid genes, by depriving them of the one substance they need to compensate for the effects of the faulty genes.
That's not an idea that going to make anyone look good in an election year where the voters have been programmed for 37 years to hate and fear cannabis and the people who use it.
You see, everyone has their reasons for wanting science to shut up and go away.
You should add up your own reasons for wanting science to shut up and go away, before you put on the attitude that you're so much better than the Muslims.
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Who do these people think fed their ancestors?
[Read the article: Fishing for boys, pedicures for girls]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's go back in time and tell neolithic women they're not allowed to fish or hike. Let's make neolithic women sit around and paint their toenails all day. Let's send all of our female ancestors to the spa. Let's see how long the human race survives like that.
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The DEA has a plan in the works to halt all meth addiction soon
[Read the article: In meth we trust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]That's why they're targeting medical marijuana clinics, obviously.
As soon as they stop medical marijuana, then all the meth addicts are going to get sober.
It will happen without any effort whatsoever on the part of the meth addicts -- that's the sheer beauty of the DEA's plan.
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What will it be like having a war fought on our border?
[Read the article: In meth we trust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]By the way, about this ending:
Neither book suggests that this particular war is near over.
Mexican cartels are stocking up on hand grenades and rocket launchers these days. It looks more and more like the Drug War could turn into an actual shooting war in northern Mexico. So not only is this war far from over, it could get much, much worse than its original architects ever dared to imagine.
When you look at the gravity of the Mexican situation, then it's obvious why the DEA prefers to busy itself with shutting down medical marijuana clubs in West Hollywood.
The Mexican situation is just downright scary. Northern Mexico could end up the new Iraq.
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Anon
[Read the article: In meth we trust]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Seeing how the article's theme was highlighting the savage effects on humans one drug can do, it seems ironically funny that the wine-club advert is there.
So here's a topic for discussion:
Do we put meth addicts in prison and leave alcoholics to fend for themselves because:
a) The civil liberties of the alcoholic matter more than the civil liberties of the meth addict.
b) The victims of the meth addict matter more than the victims of the alcoholic.
c) Alcohol users run the political system for their own benefit and relieve their own feelings of guilt and shame by locking other drug users in cages, making their world feel under control.
People can talk all they want about meth vs. alcohol as molecules -- but in the end, it's not the molecules that're putting in jail.