Afraid of flying? Maybe there is something to that. Dogs? Okay. But fear of buttons? Puh-leeeze. The phobia business - legitimizing irrational quirks - has become Big Business and life change consultant Mark O'Donoghue of Purple Smarties in Stoke-on-Trent is ready to believe you.In all, he has helped 99 people since he set up his business in 2008, he says. It isn't...
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read moreAnti-science progressives have no problem invoking a little fear in the heart of the public – sure, conservatives do the same thing, but their scare tactics revolve around money and crime. Progressives claim voting for Republicans will kill you. Historically, it works. Rachel Carson is famous today despite writing a book that was written to get DDT banned in order to make her fellow...
read moreMedieval clerics did not like the prospect of giving up sex - heck, every man getting getting married dreads the part about giving up sex - so even when they had to do so by Papal decree there was resistance to it. You think changing from a Latin to local language Mass was controversial? Genitalia are a lot more personal. Priests, of course, used to be married but that changed hundreds...
read morePETA, People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals, doesn't always make sense. They protest objectifying dead fish, for example, by objectifying live women. Actually, they show more naked women than Playboy, their marketing campaigns are littered with exploited females.(1)Now they are critical of the US Army, but not for hurting fellow humans. Rather, for hurting goats. read...
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