Language made possible the sharing of experiences from one generation to the next -- Korzybski's "Time Binding."Fraud in biomedical research. How money and politics have corrupted science and medicine.
Public health scientists are following the lead of climate scientists on how to manipulate data collection to fit the desired outcome.
Diversity -- overdefined by intension, underdefined by extension.
How the science of medicine was corrupted by money and politics.
How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality.
"Vaccine." Overdefined by affect, underdefined by data. (video)
Piercing the illusion of democracy.
After the corrupting influence of money and politics, can science be made great again?
The war on reality and the Covidian Cult.
Another lesson on how greed can corrupt science.
If you won the lottery and the prize was $5 would it make any difference in your life? The difference between statistical and clinical significance.
What's wrong with higher education in the United States?
America's growing news media pathology.
The dangers of the evaluational virus known as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Choose your words = choose your weapons.
Media censorship and coordinated deception, compelled speech, mass fear-mongering, fake news, fake fans, and fake tyrants. "Those who rule our symbols, rule us." (Korzybski, SS p41)
An extensional evaluation of crime in the United States. (video, initially censored)
The crisis of reproducibility in science.
Even legitimate photos can lie if you don't know the context.
The trouble with experts is that they know so much they think they can predict the future.
The new natural order -- politics first, science next. (video)
Predicting is hard, especially about the future. (video)
The semantic plagues of groupthink and mass hysteria.
Anecdotes vs data -- the former arouses emotions, the latter puts anecdotes in perspective.
Unfalsifiable theories. (video)
The coronavirus panic-demic and the failure of models. (video)
The trouble with experts is that their increased knowledge deludes them into believing they can predict the future.
Metacognition -- multiordinality for the 21st century.
How to deceive with graphs. (video)
Adjusting the data to fit the theory -- a reversal of the natural order of evaluation. (video)
The endless multiplication of categories of victimization was solved long ago by Korzybski's emphasis on non-identity.
In the old days you went to a doctor because you were sick. Today we are encouraged to go to the doctor and get "screened" when we are well. This new paradigm has led to some unfortunate outcomes.
Can every place on Earth be above average? (video)
James Flynn's new book rejected because he quotes forbidden views in order to discredit them. (video)
San Francisco bans labels like "felons" and "juvenile delinquents" but not the "is of identity."
Hockey stick author, not "scientist," loses lawsuit because he refuses to reveal his data and methods of generating the now discredited graph.
The Church retarded the progress of science for centuries. Now academia has taken over the role of the Church. (video)
Life on the logarithmic and exponential growth curves. Video
Consciousness of abstracting -- a learned general cognitive ability not assessed in intelligence tests.
Cortical thickness and general intelligence in humans.
"No hate, no fear." The misdirection of militants who spread hate and fear. (video)
Humans did not leave the stone age because we ran out of stones.
Glacier National Park quietly removes signs that reveal once again the lack of predictability of climate scientists.
The world will end in
1970 1980 1990 2000 2014in 12 years! A newspaper anthology of mistaken environmental doom and gloom.If the data don't support your theory, change the data. (video) Analysis.
Those who don't study history are condemned to make fools of themselves. (video)
The resurgence of blasphemy laws. (video)
Academic mobbing and the forbidden science.
The vicious circle of cancer screening. (video)
University enforces politicized 'science.'
News your supplement salesperson probably won't mention.
How the mass media create news. (video)
Einstein vs Bergson and the meaning of 'time.'
Servants or slaves? The battle for position in the oppression olympics.
Coddle U. vs. Strengthen U. (Video)
The two-valued determinism of Steven Pinker in evaluating Korzybski, Sapir and Whorf's observations that language reflects and reinforces our evaluations.
Antifa stands for "anti-fascist" -- the "anti" being superfluous. (video)
Life is composed of individuals, from whom we can abstract endless characteristics to classify them into an endless number of groups and categories.
Peak oil 1970 and other authoritative failed predictions.
Don Rickles and George Carlin could not survive in the politically-correct world of comedy today.
The SJW attack on science-mathematical methods.
National Labor Relations Board document claims the citation of studies published in the scientific literature on sexual differences are sexual harassment. (video)
The organization that cried "hate" and became rich.
Most published humanities papers never get cited. (video)
A lesson on how to lie with statistics. (video)
Institutional disconfirmation -- an antidote to confirmation bias in the academy. (video)
Steven Pinker on language and the brain. (video)
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, when fear-mongering drives asymptomatic women to risk their health through overdiagnosis and overtreatment.
Anti-depressant meds -- statistical versus clinical significance.
The Rabbit God vs. the Duck God.
Meaningless virtue signaling when the NBA says it is committed to core values of equality, diversity, inclusion, even though: (1) there are no players shorter than 5'9"; (2) no players with an ADA physical disability; (3) no female players; (4) 74% of NBA players are black males when black males compose less than 12 percent of the U.S. male population; and (5) only one team is declared the champion at the end of the season. Beyond its verbal misdirection the NBA is in reality committed to meritocracy.
Why predictability, not consensus, is the fundamental test of a theory. (video)
How polarizing an issue discourages discussion and prevents agreement.
Has peer review in science degenerated into filtering for ideology and consensus instead of quality?
Warning: medicine can be harmful to your health.
Whatever became of the 1970s global cooling scare?
Another hoax escapes the peer reviewers of a social science journal.
Religion and consumerism as virtual reality games.
As structure is the only content of knowledge, we must analyze the world in structural terms including "levels" and "orders."
Free speech for me but not for thee.
The politicization of the term "science."
Methods of the magicians in climate science. (video)
The folly of Mind Uploading -- a return to the elementalistic "essenses" or "soul" or "ghost in a machine" standard of evaluation.
The e-prime of PC culture -- will Johnson and woman become Johnperson and woperson too?
In the 1920s a childless Mr. and Mrs. Korzybski consulted this goat gland doctor for advice on getting pregnant. (video)
Korzybski's first question on meeting Anatol Rapoport was, "How many times have you read my book?" Rapoport was not amused.
Good intentions and their unintended consequences. A lesson in non-allness.
Problem: Your consumers don't like sugar in their foods. Solution: Give the "sugar" a new name.
The flaw in the 'science' of predicting the future.
H.G. Wells considered 'time travel' a mere plot element in fictional literature. Others, however, identify travel through 'space' with literal travel through 'time.' This is a akin to confusing the spatial dimensions of up-down with left-right.
In the 21st century the definition of a "tolerant" "diverse" society is how easy it is to shut down dissenting views.
Matt Ridley's critique of climate science and the greening of the Earth. (video)
The latest revision in astronomical speculations about the 'size of the universe.' More to come.
New York University censors Nobel Laureate James Watson in the name of diversity and inclusion.
Although he did suggest "parallel classes" (S&S page 487), Korzybski relied mostly on case studies to document the effectiveness of his General Semantics. Meanwhile, in the 1940s a new "gold standard" emerged -- the randomized controlled trial.
The science is settled. We took a vote. No more questioning will be tolerated. (video)
Now Judicial Watch wants to prosecute Oliver Stone for producing a favorable biopic of Edward Snowden.
Confusing the general with the particular in evidence-based medicine. (video)
Reflections on psychiatric labeling and the Rosenhan experiment.
Dr. Richard Lindzen discusses climate change. (audio)
President Obama isn't the only one who has word blockages.
Will free speech become a casualty of "diversity"?
Battle of the labels -- portray your side using euphemisms such as "inclusive," "multicultural," "welcoming" and use slur words to label those who express alternative views -- "xenophobic," "isolationist," "extremist," "hater," "racist."
Why most published research findings are false.
University of Kansas took 4 months to differentiate the meanings of words by context, something some current graduate "communications" students seem unable to do.
Richard Feynman discusses Time-Binding.
Karl Popper explains how to open the deadlocked climate policy debate.
The limitations of randomized controlled trials (RCTs).
How consensus can hinder advances in knowledge.
Fifty ways to leave your lover, but 2845 ways to spin your risks.
Statistician exposes more climate change misdirection.
The trouble with evidence-based medicine.
Benefits of physical therapy mostly placebo effect and coincidence.
Free speech does not merely entail the right to protest opinions you object to. It also means acknowledging people's right to hold those opinions in the first place.
The mysterious disappearance of Guthrie Janssen (1916-1990), who with Korzybski's tutorage edited Science and Sanity to less than 300 pages and who later edited General Semantics out of his life.
Taking climate change hysteria to the bank.
Cost-benefit analyses don't sit well with environmental alarmists.
The computers that cried "Wolf."
How to use fear, anxiety and misleading terms to persuade the masses.
The national security state perpetual motion machine.
What was once labeled "adultery" and "infidelity" has become a 'sexual orientation' -- polyamory.
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
The suppression of free speech is justified on principles of tolerance and pluralism - once viewed as the values underlying free speech.
A Bayesian interpretation of quantum mechanics.
How the search for funding pressures scientists to exaggerate their research findings.
He who frames the question has an advantage in a debate.
The Earth's complexity seems beyond the grasp of the prevailing climate models.
Science has no necessary boundaries for explanation; it does have boundaries on what explanations can be.
Was 2014 the warmest year on record?
Beware the health advice from TV talk shows.
The predictability of climate models has gotten poorer, not better, in the last 15 years. Result: climate scientists again recede the goal posts.
When the facts matter less than the conclusions.
From the British perspective the Founding Fathers of the United States were terrorists.
Dr. Steve Keen dissects the failures of macroeconomic models and Dr. Judith Curry dissects the failures of climate models. (videos)
Jared Diamond's take on why some humans came to dominate others.
Rewriting history. NATO expands toward Russia's border but the Western spin has Russia encroaching on the West.
When their working day is done trolls (internet bullies) just want to have fun.
Can student evaluations be counter-productive to student learning?
Science focuses on statistical significance; anecdotes, meanwhile, can be useful teaching tools and illustrate the uniqueness of individuals obscured by generalizations.
How do you promote a pro-science message by saying that the facts don't really matter?
Methods of deception in climate science.
A major problem with translation is deficiency of experiences, not lack of words or different languages. The difficulty may be cultural ("honor killings") or merely personal. One who has never been 'in love' or suffered from suicidal depression will find these expressions difficult to grasp.
Hormesis -- the individuality of dose.
Physicist searches attic, basement, closet and her Apple laptop, but still no trace of "dark matter" -- the "most abundant mass in the universe."
Alfred Wegener, a modest and meticulous meteorologist, proposed the theory of continental drift in 1915 only to be attacked and then ignored by the scientific community. It took half a century before his theory became science orthodoxy.
"Research proves ..." just about anything you want it to.
Jesus -- the man in the looking glass.
The multiplicity of terms for "tree" among arborists reflects the diversity of trees and the training of arborists to discern them. Korzybski wanted to accomplish something similar but more generally for the masses through training in the extensional devices ....
The quantum world, like technology, will seem like magic to those who do not understand the mechanisms or lack the epistemology to interpret the results of experiments. What the authors don't comprehend is that a probabilistic world is also deterministic. They confuse the map-maker with the territory.
A short-attention span generation will need Science and Sanity as tweets, not treatises.
Stoking the fear of change: if biological non-aging can be a human goal, why should the physical world change?
Reading the mind of rats or projecting the mind of humans?
Predictability, not consensus, is the fundamental test of a theory ("map").
More disease mongering -- creating new markets by creating new diseases.
The West supported a coup against a legal government, then blames Russia for the chaos and violence that followed.
Prepare for a surge in ADHD diagnoses.
Your doctor may be bad for your health.
Hide the decline and "the science is settled" -- when climate science jumped the shark to become climate propaganda.
In the first half of the 20th century the human eugenics movement appealed to scientists and politicians, and not just those in Nazi Germany.
Steven Pinker channels Stuart Chase.
Contrary to popular reports, your risk of death is still 100%.
The dismal art of economic forecasting.
Einstein's interaction with Velikovsky illustrates the importance of discussion over censure in science.
Freemon Dyson's interest in mathematics was born from reading E.T. Bell's Men of Mathematics.
James Lovelock, former global warming alarmist, labels much of environmentalism as religion, and warns of the difficulty of predicting the future.
After 25 years and thousands of harmful biopsies and prostatectomies, the American Urology Association grudgingly reverses its consensus recommending the PSA blood test. What took the association so long? Diagnosis and treatment of 'prostate cancer' was lucrative business for urologists and hospitals. Will the breast cancer screening consensus be the next to go bust?
The 97% consensus deception. Even the so-called deniers among climate scientists are included in the 97%.
"I love Jenni's freckles." Say what?
Global warming apocalypse postponed from 2016 to 2036. What happens when your gloom-and-doom predictions do not materialize? Predict more extreme gloom-and-doom for later. Don't ever admit to being wrong, just premature. Jesus will return eventually, right?
E-prime's bossy attempt to ban words has proven as unsuccessful as many similar attempts.
What did Dr. James Hansen, chief scientific doomsayer for catastrophic global warming, learn from Dr. Paul Ehrlich, famed prognosticator of the massive global famines that never happened? Fear sells.
How a fake Nobel Laureate uses the legal system to silence critics of his research.
Alternative medicine gurus argue for the retirement of rigorous evidence-based medicine.
How climate scientists use fear to keep their government research grants flowing.
More documentation of overtreatment in American medicine: fake knee surgery found to be as effective as real surgical intervention for meniscal tears.
Another lesson from society's criminalization of essentially victimless behaviors.
The placebo effect as non-specific psychotherapy.
Man Bites Dog makes the front page of science journals, not just pop publications.
Science needs more peer review AND open access to alternative views.
"Political donations" or legalized "bribery"?
The decline of brain-based learning. Many students still prefer liver-based learning.
The limitations of "peer review" and "consensus" in science. "Scientists" are humans too.
An economics anti-textbook for a 'science' that failed to predict the crash of 2008.
Not much bang for the buck: United States ranks first in per capita health care expenditures but 27th in life expectancy.
In the Medieval world of Islam, a rape conviction requires either a confession OR four adult male witnesses to the attack.
The United States keeps two sets of books regarding political 'crimes.'
The Nazi (Goering) and the General Semanticist (Douglas M. Kelley) coming to a bookstore and theater near you.
The mysterious suicide by potassium cyanide of Nuremberg psychiatrist Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, a Korzybski colleague and general semantics educator.
Lies, damned lies and fake quotes.
"It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul."
I cannot recommend this essay too highly.
Why psychiatrists don't talk anymore. (video)
Do I still have free speech if no one even knows I'm speaking because a tiny minority of "corporate voices" can produce a cacophony so loud that it cancels out the sound of mine?
Scientists can know only something, but only philosophers can know nothing.
Harry Markopolos, the whistleblower who outed Bernie Madoff, speaks on who rules America. (video)
New statistical methods attempting to evaluate individual responses instead of group averages reveal few benefit from anti-depressant medications and many get worse.
In the beginning, before 'space' and 'time,' was the Word, later called the Singularity, surrounded by Absolute Nothingness. The Supreme Cosmologist said "Let there be something!" and the Singularity exploded, creating the Universe and giving birth to creation myths.
The consequence of identifying economic ends with means? Failure of the massive infusion of money by the Federal Reserve into the banking system to create jobs, even menial ones.
The rise of Big Pharma and the decline of psychotherapy.
At last, a book-length biography of Korzybski.
The Amazon tribe whose language lacks an independent notion of 'time.'
What's next for Dr. Maas -- Mein Kampf in e-prime?
Does religion make people nicer?
Dr. Watson discovers political correctness is more important than freedom of speech.
Is there a homeopathic cure for legal terrorism?
Richard Dawkins on evolution and Intelligent Design.
Physicists freed from the shackles of experimental proof.
Sir Richard Doll was to cigarette smoking what Korzybski was to identification.
Your ticket to Creation Summer Camp.
>Humans are different in that we cooperate with strangers.
Daniel Dennett discovers multiordinality.
From "most hated woman in America" to champion of diversity.
The peaceful demise of slavery in the British Empire.
Evolution of medicine from treatment to prevention to enhancement.
An extensional analysis of "love."
Word salads disguised as meaningful questions.
Will the 21st century be noted merely for technological change, or will we also experience extensionalization in our standards of evaluation?
The ballad of Chicken Little -- what a little inflammatory rhetoric can do.
More cracks in the foundations of physics: quantum hoax.
The latest speculations on the 'fate of the universe.'
Stephen Pinker deconstructs some myths about human nature.
The afterlife of Marshall McLuhan.
Candor from a doctor's office.
The battle over Sigmund Freud.
Unnatural selection or the confusion of the orders of abstraction in science.
How to tell the truth and other self-serving lies.
Karl Popper, champion of extensional methods in science.
How the search for truth gets corrupted by politics.
The blood lust of identity reactions.
More intensional speculations about the origins of the universe,
A traveller's guide to Heaven.
Can we survive the threat of dihydrogen monoxide?
Words and rules for combining words.
Paul Dirac, honorary poet laureate of modern physics.
The end of human evolution? Not if you realize that cultural evolution (time-binding) has superceded genetic evolution in humans.
Ernst Mayr reflects on the future of Darwinism.
The dislike of the dissimilar.
The cultivation of tolerance and self-criticism (aspects of consciousness of abstracting) sets the West apart from cultures armed for "jihad" against "infidels."
The continuing Christian fundamentalist jihad against evolution.
The afterlife-obsessed suicidal brain really is a weapon of immense power and danger.