Mark R. Kelly
» Founder in 1997 and site-runner for 20 years of Locus Online (Hugo Award winner in 2002). Founder in 2012 and still site-runner of sfadb.com (Science Fiction Awards Database). Retired in 2012 after 30 years as a software engineer for a certain rocket engine factory.
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Category Archives: Psychology
False Equivalencies, and Books That Cannot Exist
Items today: Biden is old, but sane, while Trump is nuts; Headlines about faith, book banning, and the Biden impeachment; On the street push back from Fox News’ claims that big cities are hellholes; What Trump means by “his people”; … Continue reading
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Rapture, Autism, Economics, Authoritarianism
The predicted Rapture that did not (of course) come true; How some Christians believe autism is demonic, and (of course) why they’re wrong; Paul Krugman on why Republicans cling to “right-wing economics”; Heather Cox Richardson, excerpting her new book, on … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Politics, Psychology
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Executions, Dictators, and the GOP’s Own Reality
Trump and other Republicans float the execution of Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley; this is where Republicans are: executions; How wannabe dictator Trump would take NBC and other news outlets off the air; More about the GOP’s attack on truth … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Resistance, Lunacy, Politics, Psychology
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Disinformation, Conservative Denial, and Conspiracy Theories
Why would the GOP block research into misinformation? Hmm.; The pattern of conservative science denial: delay, deflect, downplay; CNN on how how conspiracy theories are tearing American families apart; With concluding thoughts about the idea of responsible citizenship. This is … Continue reading
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Murdoch, Azarian, Reich, and Scientists
Items today: The retirement of Rupert Murdoch, who became wealthy by degrading American politics and appealing to many Americans’ worst instincts; Republican hypocrisy example: John Fetterman vs. Lauren Boebert; with a classic definition: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics, Psychology, Science, Social Progress
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This Week’s Sciency Bits
False Memories and the Narrative Bias; Another piece with Lee McIntyre about misinformation vs. disinformation; And how the world’s population will likely peak by the end of this century, and then drop; And my thoughts on what the consequences would … Continue reading
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Planning, and Semesters
When you’re retired, not working or going to school or driven by any particular schedule, as I’ve been more or less for a decade now, you tend to mark the passage of time by the holidays or vacations or family … Continue reading
Posted in Personal history, Psychology
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Why Some Religions Seek Atheist Approval
Greta Christina on how some religious believers, oddly, seek an atheist seal of approval. It makes a weird sort of sense. Greta Christina, AlterNet, 14 Sep 2023: Opinion | Why religious believers are so desperate for the atheist seal of … Continue reading
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Conspiracy Theories from Apollo 11 to Today
Looking at today’s Phil Plait column at Scientific American, about his responses to a 2001 Fox TV program that claimed the Apollo 11 Moon landing was a hoax; The history since then about so many other conspiracy theories; And how … Continue reading
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Another Day of Examples of Beliefs vs. Reality
Another example of conservatives retelling history, from PragerU; How those with beliefs in subjective truths are more prone to conspiracy theories; How China is now using AI to sow disinformation to gullible Americans, and wondering how long it will be … Continue reading
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