False Facts and Holy War

False facts and false views: coalescent analysis

4 Darwin’s dictum on false facts and false views points the way to opening the 5 road to truth via cogent criticism of the published record. Here I discuss a case in 6 which a truncated dataset (false facts) is used for coalescent analysis of historical 7 demography that reaches a foregone conclusion of a bottleneck of numbers (false 8 views). 9 “False facts are highly injurious to the progress...

Drug War Facts: Ibogaine

2. "Studies also suggest that ibogaine attenuates drugand ethanol-induced behaviors in rodents. For example, ibogaine reduces operant self-administration of heroin in rats, as well as naloxone-precipitated withdrawal in morphine-dependent rats (Glick et al., 1992; Dworkin et al., 1995). Administration of ibogaine decreases cocaine-induced locomotor activity and reduces cocaine self-administrati...

JIHĀD The Origin of Holy War in Islam

Older, not younger, children learn more false facts from stories.

Early school-aged children listened to stories that contained correct and incorrect facts. All ages answered more questions correctly after having heard the correct fact in the story. Only the older children, however, produced story errors on a later general knowledge test. Source errors did not drive the increased suggestibility in older children, as they were better at remembering source than...

John Punch, Scotist Holy War, and the Irish Catholic Revolutionary Tradition in the Seventeenth Century.

During the 1640s, the Irish Franciscan theologian John Punch taught his theology students in Rome that war against Protestants was made just by their religion alone. Jesuits like Luis de Molina identified the holy war tradition in which Punch stood as a Scotist one, and insisted that the Scotists had confused the natural and supernatural spheres. Among Irishmen, Punch was unusual. The main Iris...