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The Age of Lunacy

  We are living in an era that will one day be recognised as the age of lunacy. There are so many views held by society that have become distorted and divorced from reality, from multiple genders to fear of doom due to global warming (since changed to climate change because the ice caps did not melt, and land masses did not sink under rising seas.) Gender questions are simply answered by a person’s genes, every cell in your body, except red blood cells, has either XX or XY genes. A very few people might have XXY and develop as a hermaphrodite but that is very rare and medical staff may have to decide on allocating a gender and whether surgery is required. They will not be as suggested by the cartoon South Park where Mrs Cartman was both her son’s Father and Mother. Gender dysphoria is a mental aberration and should be addressed as a mental problem, many people with this condition are prone to suicide, this propensity is not diminished by gender reassignment surgery. Surgery may in fa

The Dunning Kruger Effect

The Dunning Kruger effect is an established pattern whereby it has been confirmed that the less someone actually knows about a subject the more likely they are to believe that their invariably false view is infallible. It is the driving concept behind such strange beliefs as the Earth is flat, the Moon Landings were faked, Jet exhausts are actually chemtrails where government authorities are pumping deadly chemicals into the atmosphere to kill people. The most insidious and misguided of these pseudo-science beliefs is that we are facing a deadly climate crisis and unless we get to zero carbon life on Earth will become extinct. Even after forty years of false claims and failed predictions the belief still has hold of many, particularly the young who have seen so little they cannot judge for themselves. Education or more rightly indoctrination has led many to believe that an increase of one degree Celsius in the next one hundred years would be catastrophic. Despite claims that the po