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THE LIES OF LIE-DETECTOR TESTING | JCS INSPIRED
In today’s strange science video, we’re going to look at the lies of the ‘science’ of polygraphy, a.k.a. lie-detector testing. And how from a scientific standpoint it’s absolute bullshit, yet in practice strangely works in some situations. This is part of a series of videos where we examine different hypothesis & theories to determine if they are science or pseudoscience.
Citations:
Popper, Karl Raimund. Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge. 1963. Buy here!
Popper, Karl Raimund. The Logic of Scientific Discovery. 1934. Buy Here!
How Food Changed Our Sex Lives | 100 Historical Objects
The second 5 historical objects from the book A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor.
After the Ice Age: Food & Sex 9000-3500 B.C.E.
The development of farming occurred independently in at least 7 different parts of the world at the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago. This slow revolution took many centuries and had profound implications. Tending crops and domesticating animals meant that humans had for the first time to settle in one place. Farming created a food surplus that allowed larger groups of people to live together and changed not just how they lived but how they thought. New gods were developed to explain animal behavior and the seasonal cycle of crops.
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS
Citations:
Macgregor, Neil. A History of the World in 100 Objects. Viking, 2011. Buy here!
How the ‘Real World’ at Last Became FAKE NEWS? | Nietzsche
My interpretation of Nietzsche’s aphorism “How the ‘Real World’ at Last Became a Myth.” In this aphorism, Nietzsche traces out the real/appearance distinction throughout the history of philosophy: from Plato to Nietzsche’s own mature philosophy. (view more)
Citations:
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Human All-To-Human. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Daybreak. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. Twilight of the Idols and the Anti-Christ. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic. Buy here!
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Does Science Need Philosophy?
In this episode of Strange Science, we provide a introduction to the philosophy of science in order to ask a simple question: does science still need philosophy? We’ll examine scientific claims about observation, justification, heuristics, and scientific independence from social & political factors. While some really brilliant scientists, like Stephen Hawking & Neil deGrasse Tyson, think philosophy is useless to science, this video will show just a tiny portion of the philosophical presuppositions scientists rely on everyday while they’re sciencing.
Citations:
French, Steven. Science: Key Concepts in Philosophy. Buy here!
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How to Make a Human? | 100 Historical Objects
In this strange video history, we look at the 100 most influential historical objects in human history. Each episode will look at five objects from the Neil MacGregor book A History of the World in 100 Objects.
Citations:
Macgregor, Neil. A History of the World in 100 Objects. Viking, 2011. Buy here!
Does Ryan Chapman Understand Postmodernism?
Postmodern philosophy is often misunderstood, partially because it is very nuanced, partially because they appear deliberately obscure, but often because people do not fully understand the presuppositions that postmodernists rely on, nor do they understand the critique of modernity.
In this video, I react to a video by Youtuber Ryan Chapman called “What is Postmodernism?” Chapman attempts to explain postmodernism and show its secret links to so-called Leftist identity politics.
I have also provided a plethora of citations, including the one’s Chapman uses in his video, but doesn’t provide.
Citations:
Baudrillard, Jean. The Gulf War Did Not Take Place. 1991.
hooks, bell. “Postmodern Blackness”. 1994.
Pappas, Stephanie. “APA issues first-ever guidelines for practice with men and boys”. 2019.
Derrida, Jacques. Limited Inc. Northwestern Univ. Press, 2008. Buy here!
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm. On the Genealogy of Morality: A Polemic. Buy here!
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 2006. Buy here!
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Buy here!
Beauvoir, Simone de. The Second Sex. Vintage Books, 2011. Buy here!
Friedrich, Hegel Georg Wilhelm. Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Oxford University Press, 1994. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Translated by Richard Howard, Vintage Books, 2006. Buy here!
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!
Deere, Don T. “TRUTH.” The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, edited by Leonard Lawlor and John Nale, Cambridge University Press, 2014, pp. 517–527. Buy here!
Lyotard Jean-François. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. Translated by Geoff Bennington, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2010. Buy here!
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