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How Revival Preachers and Hypnotists Hijack Your Memory

How Revival Preachers and Hypnotists Hijack Your Memory

Memory isn’t a recording—it’s a rewrite. From revivals to hypnosis to courtroom drama, we explore how suggestion and emotion inflate our memories into false certainties that feel undeniably real.

Russell’s Teapot: The Universe’s Most Confounding Piece of Crockery (Or Why Belief Without Evidence is Like Chasing UFOs with a Butterfly Net)

Babylonian Exile

Russell’s Teapot: The Universe’s Most Confounding Piece of Crockery (Or Why Belief Without Evidence is Like Chasing UFOs with a Butterfly Net)

Russell’s Teapot shows why the burden of proof sits with the claimant: if a claim can’t be tested, no one is obliged to believe it—no matter how confident the believer.