Category: Essays andinterviews

Cool Cannibals

Three years ago, I didn’t know about the gruesome practices you are going to read about here. Part science, part magic, they are the stuff of nightmares. They are dreams of eternal youth.

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Traversing the Land of Fanatics, Part I

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” — Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World.

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Reflections from a REAL-LIFE KAREN

Reading this post over again gave me more than a few chills. I wrote it almost a year before I ever started writing on Substack. At that time, I never would have dreamed I would be where I am today, researching these issues so deeply and building this amazing community. I’m so thankful for this writing journey and the opportunity to share it with my readers.

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I, ZOMBIE

“This whole idea that [humans] have this soul or spirit, and they have free will and nobody knows what’s happening inside of me…that’s over.” Dr Yuval Noah

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W’aR

We should have asked the right questions. Why all the testing?

Professor Guo Jiwei wrote that “birth right” needs to be realized, and the focus should be on the new battlefield of “biological territory.”
The prize is DNA. And it is being collected in the millions all around the world.

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