Category: Articles
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Communists have been destroying lives. What about capitalism?
Since the Czechoslovak communists have taken over the power in the late 1940’s huge repression occurred. Around 250 000 people were interned, 248 executed and 8 000 died in prisons. All because of the Stalinist repressions. Most of the people executed were communists sentenced in fabricated trials (some of them, of course, were spies). Klement…
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Global government
We have global inter-connected economy, yet no global government. There are thousands of global issues needed to be addressed globally but we don’t have any global government. I am for current countries to be preserved while their law-making bodies would be voted in global elections. There is what I am imagining when writing about global…
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European parody of freedom of speech
They say freedom of speech is embedded in the constitutions of many European countries. But what kind of freedom of speech do they mean? You cannot loathe the Romani people, Jews, adhere to Nazism, promote ideologies that repress human rights. The tattoos are banned and so on. I remember an article published in some Czech…
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Give me the abstract instead of the whole book
There are thousands of non-fiction books being released with long lengths. The fact is the core of the book could be summarized into an abstract. But there wouldn’t be a reason for the book to be released. Look at my blog. I am not putting a burden on my readers. And look how short is…
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Assessing dead people IQ is pseudoscience
A widespread phenomenon has hit us. We don’t know the IQ of a dead person (lots of time a genius) so we use stylometry. And while there may be a correlation between, for example, the complexity of the written text and a living person’s IQ, the IQ tests are here to actually test people. We…
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My ambiguous relationship with Václav Havel
Václav Havel, the good guy, right? He was imprisoned for a long time and this ruined his health. He was from a wealthy family yet had compassion for poor people and their needs. His prison stint was no joke. He may have not survived it. However, not only his real morals were the motivators. He…
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The global formal educational system
There are tens of thousands of geniuses in developing countries. I believe there are people with brains as John von Neumann possessed. Yet their education system makes it impossible to attain such positions where they would capitalize on their talent. Or look at countries like the Czech Republic. The smartest ones go to the business,…
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Humanities vs. exact sciences
Some people claim exact sciences and humanities are on the same level. They say the same things are done with different tools. Nothing can be far from the truth. Imagine Newton’s physics in the 1600s. The extremely complex and provable system of equations and their geometric illustrations. The same thing goes with Einstein’s Theory of…
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Why I am not a skeptic
I don’t like people who call themselves skeptics. They claim things don’t exist in a generalized way. I don’t believe in dowsing rod, alternative medicine, astrology, poltergeists, paranormal things, acupuncture, psychoanalysis, creationism, parapsychology, and so on. So why I am not a skeptic? Because I refuse to turn down things in general. Science has produced…
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Holistic medicine, the pseudoscience at its best
I love spiritual things that came into existence during the period of science. Alternative medicine is one of them. In the Middle Ages, they understood that when assessing whether the medicine works, you must give the real medicine to 20 people and placebo to 20 people with exactly the same condition. Then you see whether…