Hello! My name is Carter Block and my question is around a problem I’ve been thinking about for a long time now, but it was around 2015 that I really started to ponder it. While the origin of my question does involve politics, I am not interested in forming a…

Well, we’ve arrived at the finale, the last post. It definitely subverted my expectations over the course of the semester. Originally, when I learned about how the “topic” of our choice was going to be what we wrote most of our weekly blogs about, I thought about switching to a…

So some news broke about one of the major COVID-19 vaccines in the United States, the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. 6 people reported that they developed blood clots sometime after receiving the vaccine. These unintended side effects, while few, called for the deployment of the J&J vaccine to be halted…

What even is a “Degenerative Research Program” or DRP for short? First, you need to understand how it is related to a normal research program. We all (probably) learned the scientific method in some form during early education. 1. Make a guess 2. Test for evidence 3. Conclude. I think…

Most people (me included) generally are pretty dismissive towards conspiracy theories. “Oh that can’t be real”, “That wouldn’t happen”, or “You’re crazy” typically serves as the rebuttal when a conspiracy theory is brought up. That’s because the phrase conspiracy theory is usually associated with harmful ideas or theories such as…

I realized that I’m a believer in a conspiracy theory… You’d think that after all the readings I’ve done, the analysis of what makes them tick, and the dismissive attitude I wrote about them with that it would be hard for me to be a conspiracy theorist. At least I…

Since I’ve done a lot of readings involving conspiracy theories and just paid attention to the news cycles for the past few years, they’ve always been something I thought about. It’s always confused me how people get lead into these beliefs because they seem so irrational to me. Of course…