By Sergio Nahabetian A profoundly fallacious argument circulates in certain Armenian political sectors: that the Armenian ...

The link between dialectic and refutation, widely recognised in the early Platonic dialogues, has been little studied in the later ones. In this paper I aim to shed light on that link by analysing the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The last time tech bro turned politician Vivek Ramaswamy waded into American political history, he was touting Richard Nixon as the inspiration for his own foreign-policy thinking, so to speak.

A former senior cybersecurity official who refuted President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was “rigged” is under federal investigation, according to a Department of Homeland Security ...

NP-hard problems are assumed to be computationally intractable, meaning that no efficient (polynomial time) algorithm is guaranteed to correctly solve every input instance. One way of coping with ...

I understand the principle of a random common cause as described in this CausalWizard doc with the example of height and lung cancer. Here we have a variable (height) that we don't think should be ...

The laugh-out-loud workplace comedy “30 Rock” (2006–2013) averaged more than seven jokes per minute, using the gamut of gags to get guffaws. Beyond a spectacular cast (Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Tracy ...

SPOKANE, Wash. – Just the facts may not be enough to overcome misinformation, a recent study indicates. In an experiment, 152 college students who had been exposed to misinformation read one of two ...

Ahead of the November presidential election, just 19% of Americans say democracy in the United States is a good example for other countries to follow, according to a Pew Research Center survey ...

1 College of Public Administration and Law, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China 2 College of Law, Shantou University, Shantou, China This study integrates SOR (Stimuli-Organism-Response) ...

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological term that describes the discomfort you feel when your beliefs don’t line up with your actions. Or it could refer to the tension of holding two conflicting ...