by Phil Braham | Dec 13, 2020 | General, Psychology, Social commentary
I was recently told by someone that had I looked at her profile I would have noticed her preferred pronouns that I should be using instead of using the words ‘she’ and ‘her’. What she didn’t realise was that it wasn’t that I didn’t know — it was that I didn’t care. Or...
by Phil Braham | Dec 12, 2020 | Covid, General, Social commentary
Covid vaccine Leaving aside the conspiracy theorists, everyone knows that Covid is a killer that can threaten the existence of the human race. We are told that thousands of people are dying daily from Covid and unless we wear masks and take steps to avoid contact with...
by Phil Braham | Oct 26, 2020 | General, Psychology, Social commentary
Some time ago I wrote an article (The girl with the X ray eyes) on a documentary how CSICOP (Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) under the leadership of Prof. Richard Wiseman set out to discredit a Russian girl Natasha Demkina. The...
by Phil Braham | Sep 22, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology
There’s a movie from around 2010 called ‘V for Vendetta’. It depicts a UK where a right-wing authoritarian regime has come to power and a vigilante (V) takes on the ruling government. The characteristics of the ruling party are: right-wing, intolerant of minorities,...
by Phil Braham | Sep 19, 2020 | Covid, General, Social commentary
Bodies stacked up at a morgue I saw a question on Reddit recently asking that if there had been no action taken on Covid, what would have happened? One of the answers said you would notice when your neighbours were dying and the coffins were stacked up in the...
by Phil Braham | Sep 12, 2020 | Covid, General, Psychology, Social commentary
Many years ago IBM was the big force in computing. They had an advertising slogan ‘No one ever got fired for buying IBM’. In other words, if you need a computer project done and you choose a company other than IBM, and it goes pear shaped (as they often do), your boss...
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