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.

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.

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.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Brigham Young had 47 children, and over 50 women as wives.

Lie detection is like language; there is a learning window. Telling whoppers to small children seems to be a family tradition in many families.