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by laurent92 1738 days ago
Excellent point.

I’ve also worked in feminism. None of the scientific results are correct (We often think women have always been oppressed, remembering the right to vote, but disregarding that ILO’s convention on slavery in 1930 excluded men 18-49 - which literally reverses the conclusion about oppression). And yet this scientific field was funded and hyped in 2013-2020.

The common points with Afghanistan and Covid: Every study is slightly wrong enough to lead to an incorrect global picture, and obviously enough that simply reading the studies is enough to find the major flaws; Laws are written in emergency; Actions that are undertaken either amplify the problem or are orthogonal to solving it; Those very actions harm the bystanders in a significant way, enough that it causes major outrage and focalises everyone’s mind.

I wonder to which point they are rotating the topics, whether they have a major cycle on 20 years (otherwise people would get too knowledgeable and able to disprove the sophisms) and a short cycle on 6 years (perhaps election cycle, the swings of the two-party), or whether this is a natural phenomenon emerging from large nations in peace.

Next topic will be something else such as microrobot attacks, so they are not visible but everyone will have to protect themselves.