Lesson 63 -- Stuff You Won't Like Knowing

  • Science is often neither reliable nor accurate. It is only rarely free of prejudice.

  • Biblical exegesis and interpretation is often shaped by prior goals and commitments

  • Virtually all politicians who've been in office a decade or longer are corrupt.

  • Many teachers, at all levels, understand the topics they teach poorly.

  • Many teachers who teach writing and 'independent thought' are themselves capable of neither.

  • All social groups and organizations indoctrinate their members, both deliberately and inadvertently.

  • Original sin is both real and pervasive. While few if any things are as evil as possible, all things are evil or corrupt to some degree.

  • Modern medicine is inexorably facilitating the decline of Homo sapiens as a biological species.

  • The person to whom most people lie most frequently, and most successfully, is themselves.

  • Most sales and marketing techniques appeal to one or more of the Seven Deadly Sins.

  • Differences between human races are of the same sort as differences between breeds of dogs, because "races" ARE "breeds".

  • Differences between human 'breeds' are significant, real and not subject to modification by social or educational means.