Scn is like HIV. Gets in there and screws up the immune system, perverts the law to its own ends. Forget government taking the lead role in bringing down scn, that task falls to you and me.

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago.

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

Cults, or related social movements such as the Taliban in Afghanistan, result in massive military expenses.

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.