In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.
Steve AylettScientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
Steve Aylett