Frauds of a Feather: the Plagiarism Wars

These shall go down in history as the sequel to the Science Wars. For those of you who don't know, the Science Wars were a series of debates between scientific realists and social constructionists back in the 1990s. The three best-known events from this ideological conflict were the 1994 publication of Higher Superstition, written by Paul R…

Propaganda and Subversion, Part 1.1: Distortion

Now that I've had time to think about it, I realised that I made a terrible mistake regarding the stages of propaganda. All malicious narratives are deceptive, be they divisive or demoralising. All warfare is deception, and the greatest act of deception is to demoralise one's enemy into not even fighting. As such, propaganda is…