"If you want a succinct definition of “scientism,” it might be this - A belief system in which science is accorded intellectual abilities far beyond what the scientific method is capable of by people whose intellectual abilities are far below being able to understand what the scientific method even is.

"This single factor, more than anything else, drives the simultaneous midwit exaltation and debasement of “science” as an intellectual activity. More generally, this “midwit effect” has destroyed the position which genuine competency should hold in our society by casting all claims to competency in doubt."?

https://neociceroniantimes.substack.com/p/why-we-dont-trust-experts?utm_medium=reader2#:~:text=If%20you%20want,competency%20in%20doubt.

Doctors are baffled!

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2072 years ago today, Caesar crosses the Rubicon

Everyone Watched… and Learned

Thomas Friedman was correct about the battle in Ukraine being massively significant with regards to the future direction of the world, but he had it precisely backwards with regards to what the inevitable conclusions of the various third parties watching the conflict would be. While the battle on the ground that triggered World War Wired […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/11/everyone-watched-and-learned/

Michelle Obama has said that she is kept awake at night by the thought of Donald Trump winning in 2024, in comments have already led to speculation that she could replace Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee.

https://modernity.news/2024/01/09/here-we-go-michelle-obama-says-shes-terrified-of-trump-winning/

Students from an ultra-Orthodox Hasidic group secretly hired Mexican laborers to help them build a controversial tunnel at the sect’s world headquarters in Crown Heights — all to fulfill what they felt was a religious obligation to expand the "holy site"

https://nypost.com/2024/01/11/news/orthodox-jewish-students-used-migrant-labor-for-secret-tunnel/

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📢 🇺🇸 🇾🇪 U.S. Officials have Confirmed the beginning of Airstrikes against Houthi Targets in Yemen.

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Inside the mysterious 50-foot-long tunnel beneath a Brooklyn synagogue that sparked a riot

https://nypost.com/2024/01/09/news/video-reveals-extent-of-bizarre-tunnel-under-brooklyn-synagogue/

🇮🇷 Iran has officially reported that the IRGC naval forces have seized a tanker that was previously captured by the Americans, who previously stole both the tanker and the oil it carried. Now the Iranians have brought it back. It must be understood that the oil pumped into Basra will not be returned either.

The crew of Filipinos and one Greek will be released.

The tanker war in the Red Sea, Gulf of Oman and Indian Ocean continues.

 ‼️Chinese state-backed experts have found a way to identify people who use Apple's encrypted AirDrop messaging service, according to the Beijing municipal government.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/china-apple-airdrop-encryption-cracked-to-block-inappropriate-information/

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 Confidential US report finds Israel unlikely to win against Hezbollah on second front

🔶️ The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) found that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would be too stretched by fighting on two fronts, with the air force already overworked by constant raids on Gaza.

🔶️ IDF pilots would face far more dangerous missions going up against Hezbollah’s powerful air defences, the DIA warned, according to a report in the Washington Post.

🔶️ On Sunday, the IDF said it had wrapped up combat operations in northern Gaza and completed the “dismantling” of Hamas’s command structure there.

🔶️ Tens of thousands of troops have already been withdrawn from Gaza, with some already being redeployed to the northern front in the event war breaks out there.

🔶️ Iran-backed Hezbollah has an arsenal of tens of thousands of rockets and missiles, and groups of experienced fighters who have battleground experience in Lebanon and Syria. Its commanders have also advised other Iran-backed militant groups in Yemen and Iraq.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/07/israel-us-intelligence-hezbollah-gaza-conflict/

https://archive.ph/md47E