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

I much prefer the modern world.

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

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.

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

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.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.