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    [YouTube] The Truth About Rape Culture

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    You assert that The Forensic Examiner is not peer-reviewed, but a cursory web search confirms that it is.  

    From their website: "The Forensic Examiner® is the official peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute. This site serves as your source of information for all aspects of the journal, including article archives, contact information, and of course, advertising information."

    http://www.theforensicexaminer.com

    If you review any edition of the journal you’ll see their submission guidelines and overall advisory board.

    First you claimed that the presentation "relies heavily on Frank S. Zepezauer's article" when it was the source for a single quote from Alan Dershowitz, and nothing else. Then you asked for a citation of McDowell’s work, and we provided citation in a peer reviewed journal. Gross' information also lines up with other reports of the study. Here are a few alternate sources that corroborate his report:

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EtdMobTttnwC&pg=PA239
    http://www.law.northwestern.edu/legalclinic/wrongfulconvictions/exonerations/documents/ilDotsonMcDowell.pdf

    https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ep4PBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA45

    The study itself is also available in an early edition of "Practical Aspects of Rape Investigation: A Multidisciplinary Approach" by Robert Hazelwood.

    We always take source questions very seriously, and if we’ve gotten a piece of information wrong, we want to know that more than anybody and issue a correction. Given the massive amount of time which went into this piece, for any future questions, I ask that you provide specific sourced information on any corrections and review the originally provided source materials.

    [YouTube] The Truth About Rape Culture

    in New Freedomain Content and Updates

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    "The Truth About Rape Culture" relies heavily on Frank S. Zepezauer's article www.ipt-forensics.com/journal/volume6/j6_2_4.htm.  But McDowell and Hibler's "False Allegations" article doesn't support the information in the article or video.  So this information is effectively unsourced.  Will Stefan Molyneux please respond?

     

    Zepezauer's and the FrontPage Magazine articles are the source for this statement:

     

     

    Back in the 1990s, Alan Dershowitz, lawyer and prominent scholar on U.S. law, was "accused of sexual harassment for discussing in class the possibility of false rape allegations." The irony can tear a hole in the fabric of space and time! Dershowitz later refused to give lectures on rape without videotaping them, and remarked that "legal experts in the field had just decided not to teach rape law rather than take the risk."

     

    Hardly a heavy reliance on it at all. If you can point out specific contradictions, I'd be glad to take a look at them.

    Oil Prices

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    Can one make any sense of a market built on cloud castles of smoke and mirrors? 

    Schiff is one trick inflation pony, but at what point does he lose credibility? Oil is down, gold and silver have fallen and now sideways.

     

    An oldie but goldie:

     

     

    The game has logical rules, but when the players -- the guys with the guns -- play whac-a-mole with the inputs, it turns into a pretty chaotic environment.

    [YouTube] The Truth About Robin Williams

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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11030100/Robin-Williams-friend-reveals-actor-resented-having-to-do-new-Mrs-Doubtfire.html

    But according to his neighbour and friend of over a decade, he no longer wanted to work on films as he felt they were not conducive to his mental well-being.

     

    "Robin had promised himself he would not do any more as he invested so much in his roles that it left him drained and particularly vulnerable to depressive episodes,” the friend told the paper.
     
    "He signed up to do them purely out of necessity. He wasn’t poor, but the money wasn’t rolling in any more and life is expensive when you have to pay off two ex-wives and have a family to support.”
     
    [...]
     
    “He didn’t like being away from the family for too long, which was a big issue for him when he was shooting films,” the friend said. “That’s why he agreed to do the TV show (The Crazy Ones). It was filmed nearby in San Francisco and they were very flexible with him.
     
    “He was hit hard when they cancelled it - it was helping him pay the bills.”

     

    [YouTube] The Truth About Israel and Palestine

    in New Freedomain Content and Updates

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    Lians, this may sound stupid, but I don't get what the specifics of Israel/Palestine history have do with solving the problem they have now.  History makes it is absolutely clear what caused the problem. It's force. Why does anything else need to be said? 

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    I feel that you are exacerbating the problem by digging into history's atrocities and pointing fingers. What is that going to solve?

     

    You do realize that the entire FDR conversation is dedicated to solving the problem they have, right? There is no magical button of reason that we can press and make the fundamentalism, the blood and tears go away. Furthermore, It's not force that caused the problem, it's people using force - people whose ideas are still embedded in Israeli culture.

     

    Exacerbating the problem by digging up the truth? Talk about shooting the messenger. This is a philosophy show and truth is the main tool of the trade... The information we presented in the video is already known to the Arabs; they wouldn't commemorate Nakba Day if they were unaware of their history. In fact, there are even Arabic novels written about the ethnic cleansing.
     
    A cathedral of peace built on falsehood will crumble at the slightest breeze. Assuming we do actually exacerbate the problem by telling the truth, let me translate what you said to a more familiar language: Digging up the truth about your past will exacerbate your relationships with those who did you harm. So what?
     
    Fundamentally, the presentation isn't about Israel and Palestine, it's about irrational absolutes always devolving to coercion. We're using the history of the conflict to promote philosophy.

     

    There was enlightenment in Germany.

     

    The work of philosophers like Kant, Hegel and Leibniz was more of a revival and repackaging of medieval scholasticism than an actual appeal to Greek reason. Indeed, the tyrannical Rabbis studied them with great interest. The religious upbringing of Moses Hess lead him to Hegel for a reason. Whose sentiment do you think he echoed when he said the following:

     

    Judaism is not a passive religion, but an active life factor which has coalesced with the national consciousness into one organic whole. It is primarily the expression of a nationality whose history for thousands of years coincides with the history of the development of a humanity and the Jews are a nation which, having once acted as the leaven of the social world, is destined to be resurrected with the rest of civilized nations.
     
     We have to restudy our history, which has been grossly neglected by our rationalists, and rekindle in the hearts of our young generation the spirit which was the source of inspiration to our prophets and sages. Then, also, will we draw our inspiration from the deep well of Judaism; then will our sages and wise men regain the authority which they forfeited from the moment when, prompted by other motives than patriotism, they estranged themselves from Judaism and attempted to reform the Jewish law. We will then again become participators in the holy spirit, namely, the Jewish genius, which alone has the right to develop and form the Jewish law according to the needs of the people. And then, when the third exile will finally have come to an end, the restoration of the Jewish State will find us ready for it.

     

     

    But let's assume Germany was the birthplace of many Enlightenment thinkers. Does that mean their ideas permeated German society? Religious groups like the Lutherans promoted the creation of a public school system with the idea to uproot any secular thoughts from the minds of children. They ultimately got their wish. If you look into the history of the Prussian school system you'll find the roots of both German religiosity and militarism. There's a reason why Norman Finkelstein compared present day Israel to Germany under Bismarck through Hitler.
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