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Advantage Versus Privilege

July 27, 2019
Often people, who consider themselves to be "intellectuals", spend a great deal of time thinking about things.  More often than not, what they imagine to be the TRUTH turns out to be an untestable hypothesis.  The fact that their hypothesis cannot be subjected to scientific examination does not d...
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