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New Covid-19 Treatment Being Studied.

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New reports from American College of Chest Physicians reveal people who partake in marijuana usage had better health outcomes against Covid-19 virus compared to those who did not use marijuana. https://youtu.be/uxarZ6tK6nc Study: Cannabis Compound CBD May Help Prevent, Treat COVID NOW HERE'S SOME INTERESTING NEWS: CANNABIDIOL INHIBITS SARS-COV-2 REPLICATION IN HUMAN CELLS AND MICE The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused widespread morbidity and mortality across the globe ever since it started in late 2019. Despite the availability of a selection of COVID-19 vaccines, SARS-CoV-2 and its newly emerging variants are spreading worldwide, stressing the need for alternative solutions such as effective treatments. Unfortunately, despite a collective global effort, only limited therapies have been identified so far that can block SARS-CoV-2 replication and viral production. ABOUT THE STUDY In the current study, researchers used human A549 lung

2020: Fact check: U.N. Agenda 21/2030 'New World Order' is not a real document

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2020: Fact check: U.N. Agenda 21/2030 'New World Order' is not a real document The claim: The United Nations will establish a 'new world order' under its Agenda 21/2030 Mission Goals Is a "new world order" part of the UN's plan? There is evidence that the claim has circulated on social media for years, but a May repost by Facebook user Vernon Adkinson recently went viral. Over 20 goals comprise the "new world order" the United Nations will focus on as part of its "Agenda 21/2030 Mission Goals," according to the claim. Items on the agenda include one world government; a single cashless currency; government-owned and controlled schools, colleges and universities and an end to single-family homes. "THIS IS NOT A CONSPIRACY THEORY," Adkinson insisted in the caption. "If you don’t believe it, a simple google search will take you to the U.N. website where you can access the document and read it for yourself. It is amazi

LOW IQ AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES: A HAND IN GLOVE RELATIONSHIP

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# Conspiracy Theories: A Public Health Concern and How to Address It https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682931/full https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354954625_Corrigendum_Conspiracy_Theories_A_Public_Health_Concern_and_How_to_Address_It # Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain.. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282974/ # Speaking of Psychology: Why people believe in conspiracy theories, with Karen Douglas, PhD https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/conspiracy-theories ## Mental health & conspiracy theories – is there a connection? https://www.tikvahlake.com/blog/mental-health-conspiracy-theories-is-there-a-connection/ # >People Drawn to Conspiracy Theories Share a Cluster of Psychological Features https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/people-drawn-to-conspiracy-theories-share-a-cluster-of-psychological-features/ Inside the Brain of a Psychopath https:

Conspiracy theories are a mental health crisis

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Belief in conspiracy theories: Basic principles of an emerging research domain. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282974/ https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/conspiracy-theories https://www.adamstaten.com/blog/2021/2/7/low-iq-and-conspiracy-theories-a-hand-in-glove-relationship https://www.psypost.org/2022/05/trump-supporters-use-less-cognitively-complex-language-and-more-simplistic-modes-of-thinking-than-biden-supporters-study-finds-63068 https://www.newamericanjournal.net/2020/08/trump-promotes-messiah-complex-with-low-iq-religious-voters/ https://www.civic-renaissance.com/p/when-does-an-intellectual-failing https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc Conspiracy theories are a mental health crisis No one's talking about the complex relationship between disinformation and mental health. That changes now. https://mashable.com/article/mental-health-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-depression Inside the Brain of a Psychopath ht

Freemen on the Land are “parasites” peddling “pseudolegal nonsense”: Canadian judge fights back

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Gurski: Canada’s spies were right about the ‘Freedom Convoy’ CSIS did warn the Trudeau government of the presence of 'extremist elements' within the trucker protest in January. Whether the report on this was read and absorbed is another matter. hhttps://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/gurski-canadas-spies-were-right-about-the-freedom-convoy The Far-Right in Canada RESEARCH BRIEF (JANUARY 2019) Public commentary concerning issues relating to the Canadian far-right mirror the nuances, tensions, and disagreement within and between the groups belonging to the movement  Generally speaking, responses to overt white nationalist, white supremacist, and right-wing ideas were met with a moderate response by online commentators  A strategy of focusing on the semantics and perceived misuse of terms like ‘white nationalism’, ‘white supremacy’, and ‘Nazi’ was frequently used in order to minimize any controversy associated with the recent rise of far-right groups in Canada https://pro

# Trump's lethal aversion to reading.

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## The president's coronavirus response illustrates the perils of bibliophobia https://theweek.com/articles/915606/trumps-lethal-aversion-reading # The President Who Doesn’t Read Trump’s allergy to the written word and his reliance on oral communication have proven liabilities in office. By [David A. Graham](https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-a-graham/) https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/americas-first-post-text-president/549794/ Education, Not Income, Predicted Who Would Vote For Trump https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-predicted-who-would-vote-for-trump/ # The Psychology of Stupid The use of the word stupidity derives from the way Plato defined it in his dialogue, Sophist, and elsewhere: it is when a person supposes they know something that they do not know. It is a willful refusal to learn, typically because the person is already convinced they know something. That is stupidity. Aug. 24, 2015. [http://www.peterhfrank.com