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All Questions and Sources

This document contains all questions and their suggested sources in one place, with links to all AI responses.

Last Updated: 2025-08-21

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1. Are smartphones harming adolescent mental health?

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• A Consensus Statement on Potential Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use on Adolescent Mental Health – OSF Preprints
• Associations Between Screen Time and Lower Psychological Well-Being Among Children and Adolescents: Evidence From a Population-Based Study – Preventive Medicine Reports
• Screens, Teens, and Psychological Well-Being: Evidence From Three Time-Use Diary Studies – Psychological Science
• Adolescent Mental Health in the Digital Age: Facts, Fears and Future Directions – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
• Behind the Scenes of the Consensus Statement on Potential Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use – Center for Conflict + Cooperation Newsletter
• The truth about teens, social media and the mental health crisis – NPR
• Are screens harming teens? What scientists can do to find answers – Nature
• The Anxious Generation In The Classroom – Aporia Magazine
• OSF – osf.io

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2. Are we living through a crisis of expertise?

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• Frances Lee & Stephen Macedo on Why Institutions Failed During COVID – Yascha Mounk (Substack)
• Elite Failures and Populist Backlash – Conspicuous Cognition (Substack)
• The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium – Martin Gurri (Google Books)
• Public Trust in Government: 1958–2024 – Pew Research Center
• The Failure of Economists – Not On Your Team (Substack)
• Economists Don’t Know What’s Going On – The Economist
• Scientific Research Fraud and Criminal Prosecution – Vox
• Are Most Published Research Findings False? – NCBI/PMC (2017)
• The Wrong Lessons of Iraq – The Last Psychiatrist
• In Defence of Non-Experts – Aporia Magazine
• Podcast Bros and Brain Rot – Nathan Cofnas (Substack)
• Harvard Revokes Tenure of Star Business Professor – WGBH News
• I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust – The Free Press
• The Ten Warning Signs – The Honest Broker (Substack)
• When the New York Times Lost Its Way – The Economist
• Can You Trust Anybody? – The Wall Street Journal
• Coordination Problems: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things – The Seeds of Science (Substack)
• The Crisis of Expertise is About Status – Slow Boring
• Status, Class, and the Crisis of Expertise – Conspicuous Cognition (Substack)
• Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis – letter.palladiummag.com
• Webpage – science.org

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3. Did COVID-19 leak from a lab or did it have natural origins?

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• WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part – World Health Organization
• Declassified Assessment on COVID-19 Origins – Office of the Director of National Intelligence (dni.gov)
• Lab Leak: The True Origins of COVID-19 – The White House
• COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab – Vanity Fair
• We Were Badly Misled About Covid – The New York Times
• The Origin of COVID: Did People or Nature Open Pandora’s Box at Wuhan? – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
• House Panel Concludes That COVID-19 Pandemic Came From a Lab Leak – Science
• Evidence that the Huanan Market in Wuhan, China, Was the Epicenter of the COVID-19 Pandemic – News-Medical.net
• Practically a Book Review: Rootclaim – Astral Codex Ten
• Was Covid a Chinese Bioweapons Research Project? – City Journal

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4. Does gender affirming care lower youth suicide risk?

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• Pubertal Suppression for Transgender Youth and Risk of Suicidal Ideation – Pediatrics
• Researchers Found Puberty Blockers and Hormones Didn’t Improve Trans Kids’ Mental Health at Their Clinic — Then They Published a Study Claiming the Opposite – Singal-Minded (Jesse Singal)
• Independent Review of Gender Identity Services for Children and Young People: Interim Report – Cass Review (NHS England)
• Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Examining Gender-Specific Mental Health Risks After Gender-Affirming Surgery: A National Database Study – The Journal of Sexual Medicine
• Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care – JAMA Network Open
• Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones – New England Journal of Medicine
• I co-wrote the anonymous HHS report on pediatric gender medicine – The Washington Post
• The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine – The Atlantic

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5. Does immigration drive down wages?

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• More – Migration
• Wewantedworkers Chapter9 – Archive
• Data On How America Sold Out Its – Substack

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6. Has immigration affected the safety of women in Europe?

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• A National Audit into Group‑Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (‘Casey audit’) – Archive / UK Government (Baroness Casey report, published June 16, 2025)
• Immigration and Crime: Sweden – Inquisitive Bird (data‑driven analysis of immigration and crime in Sweden)
• The Scandal of the Century? – Fergus Mason (Substack)
• Sweden’s violent reality is undoing a peaceful self‑image – Politico Europe
• Migrants Will Not Stop Molesting and Assaulting… – Eugyppius: a Plague Chronicle
• My Europe: Eastern Promise and Western Pretension – DW (Deutsche Welle)
• 2015–16 New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Germany – Wikipedia
• Britain Finally Admits It Covered Up Grooming Gangs – Steve Sailer (blog)
• Rotherham, rape, and me – Steve Sailer (blog)

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7. How accurate are IQ tests?

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• Breaking the Taboo – Riot IQ
• 12 Things Everyone Should Know About IQ – The Nature‑Nurture‑Nietzsche Newsletter
• Why Is Most Journalism About IQ So Bad? – Quillette
• Myths and Misconceptions About Intelligence: A Study of 35 Myths – Personality and Individual Differences
• What Do Undergraduates Learn About Human Intelligence? An Analysis of Introductory Psychology Textbooks – Archives of Scientific Psychology
• Communicating Intelligence Research: Media Misrepresentation, the Gould Effect, and Unexpected Forces – Intelligence
• IQ: From Causes to Consequences – Long list of references (French)
• Controversy Over The Predictive Validity Of Iq On Job Performance – Human Varieties

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8. How accurate are stereotypes?

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• What's Wrong with Stereotypes? – fakenous.substack.com
• Webpage – sites.rutgers.edu
• Stereotype Accuracy is One of the Largest and Most Replicable Effects in All of Social Psychology – spsp.org

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9. How accurate was press coverage of President Biden’s mental decline?

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• How Biden’s Inner Circle Protected a Faltering President – The New York Times
• Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again – Penguin Press
• Original Sin – Bookshop.org
• What We Don’t Learn in “Original Sin” – Slow Boring
• The Crimes of the Politburo – Persuasion
• Who’s to Blame for Missing Biden’s Decline? – The New Yorker
• New Book Details How Biden’s Mental Decline Was Kept from Voters – NPR
• Alex Thompson on the Decline of Joe Biden – Yascha Mounk

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10. How accurate were economists’ predications about immigration?

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• Wewantedworkers Chapter9 – Archive
• The Failure Of Economists – Notonyourteam
• Fiscal Impact Of Immigrants By Country Of Origin – Emilkirkegaard

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11. How do genes influence socio-economic status?

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• Genes, money, status… and comics – Punctuated Equilibrium
• Socio-economic status is a social construct with heritable components and genetic consequences – Nature Human Behaviour
• The Son Also Rises – Wikipedia
• What can genes tell us about the relationship between education and health? – Social Science & Medicine
• Heritability of lifetime earnings – The Journal of Economic Inequality
• The genetic and environmental composition of socioeconomic status in Norway – Nature Communications
• Associations between common genetic variants and income provide insights about the socio-economic health gradient – Nature Human Behaviour
• [Education, genes, and social mobility]( – ) – *EurekAlert! (news release summarizing a PNAS study)**
• S41467 025 58961 6 – Nature
• W27053 – Nber

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12. How do you distinguish good science from propaganda?

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• NIH Staff Revolt Promotes Propaganda – Unsafe Science
• Two Ways of Thinking About Propaganda – RBN McKenna (Substack)
• The Stanford Prison Experiment Was Massively Influential. We Just Learned It Was a Fraud. – Vox
• The Disastrous Effects of Lysenkoism on Soviet Agriculture – Encyclopedia.com
• Bhfgdibiac – Link
• Beware the Man of Many Studies – cremieux.xyz
• Lying for a Climate Crusade – cremieux.xyz

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13. How does school spending in the United States compare to other nations?

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• National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) – NCES
• Bringing it back home: Why state comparisons are more useful than international comparisons for improving U.S. education policy – Economic Policy Institute
• PISA 2022 U.S. Results – NCES
• Elite Education Journalism: Still Ideology at Its Purest – Freddie deBoer (Substack)
• Education Expenditures by Country – NCES Condition of Education
• Education at a Glance 2023: Putting U.S. Data in a Global Context – IES Blog
• These countries spend the most on education – World Economic Forum

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14. How many Americans have died due to fentanyl?

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• Are fentanyl overdose deaths rising in the US? – USAFacts
• Clarifying CDC’s Efforts to Quantify Overdose Deaths – Public Health Reports
• Drug Poisoning Deaths in the United States, 1980–2008 – NCHS Data Brief No. 81 / CDC
• DEA Issues Nationwide Alert on Fentanyl as Threat to Health and Public Safety – Drug Enforcement Administration
• Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2017 – NCHS Data Brief No. 329 / CDC
• Trends and Geographic Patterns in Drug and Synthetic Opioid Overdose Deaths — United States, 2013–2019 – MMWR / CDC
• Overdose Deaths Involving Opioids, Cocaine, and Psychostimulants — United States, 2015–2016 – MMWR / CDC
• Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 1999–2018 – NCHS Data Brief No. 356 / CDC
• Overdose Prevention Strategy – U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time – Wikipedia
• Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 2003–2023 – NCHS Data Brief No. 522 / CDC
• Drug Overdose Deaths: Facts and Figures – National Institute on Drug Abuse

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15. How many immigrants are in the United States illegally?

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• Study: Undocumented immigrant population roughly double current estimate – MIT Sloan
• https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/
• https://homeland.house.gov/2024/10/24/startling-stats-factsheet-fiscal-year-2024-ends-with-nearly-3-million-inadmissible-encounters-10-8-million-total-encounters-since-fy2021/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0jp4xqx2z3o
• Record 14 Million Unauthorized Immigrants Lived in the US in 2023 – pewresearch.org

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16. How many immigrants entered the United Stats under the Biden presidency?

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• Webpage – homeland.house.gov
• Did Joe Biden Really Parole In Nearly 3 Million Aliens? – cis.org
• Article: Biden’s Mixed Immigration Legacy: Borde.. – migrationpolicy.org z

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17. How much of a problem is misinformation?

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• Criticising Misinformation Research Doesn’t Make You a Trump Supporter – Conspicuous Cognition
• The Rise of the Fact-checking Movement: Ensuring the Truth Is Heard in the Western Balkans – German Marshall Fund of the United States
• Confronting Health Misinformation: U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory (Foreword) – NCBI Bookshelf
• Misunderstanding the Harms of Online Misinformation – Nature
• Misinformation on Misinformation: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges – Social Media + Society
• The misinformation crisis isn’t about truth, it’s about trust – The Eternally Radical Idea with Greg Lukianoff

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18. How much of intelligence is hereditary?

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• Is Intelligence Hereditary? – Scientific American
• The new genetics of intelligence – Nature Reviews Genetics
• Genome-wide association meta-analysis in 269,867 individuals identifies new genetic and functional links to intelligence – Nature Genetics
• Explaining the Increasing Heritability of Cognitive Ability Across Development: A Meta-analysis of Longitudinal Twin and Adoption Studies – Psychological Science
• Genetic Variation, Brain, and Intelligence Differences – Molecular Psychiatry
• DNA and IQ: Big Deal or Much Ado About Nothing? – A Meta-analysis – Intelligence
• The new genetics of intelligence – Nature Reviews Genetics (PMC Open Access)
• Polygenic Score Prediction Within And Between Sibling Pairs For Intelligence Cognitive Abilities And Educational Traits From Childhood To Early Adulthood – Intelligence & Cognitive Abilities Journal
• Stability of general cognitive ability from infancy to adulthood – PNAS
• Three promising directions in the study of intelligence with genetic methods – GWAS Intelligence

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19. Is nuclear power safe?

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• What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy? – Our World in Data
• Nuclear Safety Review 2024 – International Atomic Energy Agency
• How safe is nuclear energy? – The Economist
• Nuclear Energy Safety Studies – Sandia National Laboratories
• Your Book Review Safe Enough – Astralcodexten

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20. Is the UK heading for a civil war?

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• Are We Headed for Civil War? – David Betz – YouTube
• Civil War Comes to the West – Military Strategy Magazine

• [The Coming British Civil War – David Betz

  Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 124](https://www.louiseperry.co.uk/p/the-coming-british-civil-war-david) – Maiden Mother Matriarch

• The right wants us to think Britain is on the verge of ethnic conflict. The truth is worse than that – The Guardian
• Taking warnings of civil war seriously – British Politics and Policy (LSE Blog)
• The Summer of Kindling – Morgoth’s Review
• Who’s Afraid of Renaud Camus? – The Wall Street Journal
• Jack Hadders on protest footage – Twitter: JackHadders
• Will Coleshill on events in Epping – Twitter: WillColeshill
• Jack Hadders on media coverage – Twitter: JackHadders
• BBC report on Epping incident – BBC News
• YouTube footage from Epping protest (starts at 5:01) – - YouTube
• Tommy Robinson commentary on protest – - Twitter TRobinsonNewEra
• Jack Hadders preview of Epping protest – - Twitter JackHadders
• Guardian article on rising social tensions – - The Guardian
• Independent article on migrant hotels and riots – - The Independent
• Evening Standard report on Starmer’s riot concerns – - Evening Standard
• Archived version of Independent article – - Archive.is
• Archived version of Evening Standard article – - Archive.is
• Fraser Nelson reaction to Epping developments – - Twitter FraserNelson
• Guardian briefing on new internet safety rules – - The Guardian
• Yahoo News article on Online Safety Act measures – - Yahoo News
• LADbible article on changes to the UK Online Safety Act – - LADbible
• BBC Newsnight X post on Online Safety Act – - Twitter BBCNewsnight
• The Spectator article on Ofcom’s stance toward Gab – - The Spectator
• BasedTorba X post responding to Ofcom news – - Twitter: BasedTorba
• UK Government profile of Yvette Cooper – GOV.UK
• VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in – Hacker News
• Britain isn’t lurching towards civil war, it’s just a mess – The View from Cullingworth
• Coinbase takes on 'broken Britain' with dystopian musical extravaganza – marketing-beat.co.uk
• Britain is entering a new phase in the policing of digital dissent – The Free Speech Union – freespeechunion.org

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21. Should academia be reformed?

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• Why I Signed On To The Manhattan – Substack
• Lines In The Sand – Substack
• The Class Of 2026 – Substack
• We Tried To Warn You – Substack
• From Heterodox to Helpless – open.substack.com

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22. Should genetic engineering of humans be allowed?

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• https://arep.med.harvard.edu/gmc/protect.html
• https://pifferpilfer.substack.com/p/a-boomer-geneticists-approach-to
• https://highalchemy.beehiiv.com/p/introducing-high-alchemy-73e30f4ea915d1d7
• https://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/suddenly-trait-based-embryo-selection

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23. Was the public misled about the UK grooming gang scandal?

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• Wikipedia Does It Again – Stevesailer
• Baroness Caseys Audit Of Group Based Child Sexual Exploitation And Abuse – Gov
• Did The New York Times Inform Readers About Rotherham – Emilkirkegaard
• 1843657638904569928 – X (Twitter)
• https://archive.jwest.org/Research/Casey2025-NationalAuditChildSexualExploitation.pdf
• https://www.takimag.com/article/the_real_threat_to_british_elites_steve_sailer/
• https://www.stevesailer.net/p/rotherham-rape-and-me

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24. Were any unmarked graves discovered at former Resident Schools in Canada?

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• Wokeness Runs Home - by Chris Bray – chrisbray.substack.com

• The Kamloops ‘Discovery’: A Fact – dorchesterreview.ca

• Webpage – ehprnh2mwo3.exactdn.com

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25. Were the COVID-19 lockdowns effective?

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• The End of the COVID-19 Pandemic – European Journal of Clinical Investigation
• Estimating the Effects of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions on COVID-19 in Europe – Nature
• A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality – Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics
• Frances Lee & Stephen Macedo on Why Institutions Failed During COVID – Persuasion (Substack)
• A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality – Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics (archived)

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26. What are luxury beliefs?

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• Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols – Rob Henderson’s Newsletter
• “Luxury beliefs”: Signaling through ideology? – UCD School of Economics Working Paper
• ‘Luxury Beliefs’ That Only the Privileged Can Afford – The Wall Street Journal
• “Luxury beliefs” Are Not Real – Culture: An Owner’s Manual
• ‘Luxury Beliefs’ Are the Latest Status Symbol for Rich Americans – New York Post
• Book Review: The Road to Wigan Pier – Musa al‑Gharbi (Substack)
• Campus Protests Progressive Henderson – The New York Times

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27. What are some examples of elite misinformation?

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• Elite Misinformation Is an Underrated Problem – Slow Boring
• When The New York Times Lost Its Way – The Economist
• Jeff Bezos: The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media – The Washington Post
• I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust – The Free Press
• Highbrow Climate Misinformation – Joseph Heath (Substack)
• Did the Media Blow It on Biden? – Nate Silver
• Elite Education Journalism: Still Ideology at Its Purest – Freddie deBoer (Substack)
• The Wrong Lessons of Iraq – The Last Psychiatrist
• Britain Finally Admits It Covered Up Grooming Gangs – Steve Sailer
• Looking back on the coverage of Trump – Columbia Journalism Review
• The misinformation crisis isn’t about truth, it’s about trust – Eternally Radical Idea
• The Liberal Misinformation Bubble About Youth Gender Medicine – The Atlantic
• The failure of economists… – Not On Your Team, But Always Fair
• What In The World Were They Thinking? – open.substack.com

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28. What are some examples of extralegal pressure by the US government to influence corporations?

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• Banks to Payday Lenders: Quit the Business or We’ll Close Your Account – The Washington Post
• A Very Crypto Mystery – New York Magazine (Intelligencer)
• WikiLeaks shows reach and limits of Internet speech – Reuters
• Zuckerberg says Biden administration pressured Meta to censor some COVID-19 content – Reuters
• Judge restricts White House communications with social media companies – The Guardian
• FDIC Letters: Crypto’s “Operation Choke Point 2.0” Claims, Coinbase Weighs In – Banking Dive
• Operation Choke Point: DOJ secretly pressured banks to cut ties with legal businesses – U.S. House Oversight Committee report
• IRS targeting controversy – Wikipedia
• Operation Choke Point – Wikipedia
• Twitter Files – Wikipedia
• At White House Request, Lockheed Martin Drops Plan to Issue Layoff Notices – ABC News Political Memo
• Carrier, United Technologies Meet With Trump in Indianapolis – CBS News
• Trump, tax cuts and layoffs: Inside Carrier’s reversal on moving jobs to Mexico – The Washington Post
• U.S. Defense Cuts Stir Controversy, But Few Layoffs or Closures – Reuters
• Moral suasion (Jawboning) – Wikipedia
• Nudge theory – Wikipedia
• NRA v. Vullo – Wikipedia

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29. What are the effects of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act?

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• Congress Article – Congress
• Whats In The One Big Beautiful Bill – Usafacts

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30. What are the externalities of immigration?

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• The Limits Of Social Science I – Lorenzofromoz
• The Limits Of Social Science Ii – Lorenzofromoz
• Externalities From Low Skilled Migration – Aporiamagazine
• Wewantedworkers Chapter9 – Archive
• Green2025 Renaudcamus – Archive
• Putnam2007 Diversity – Archive

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31. What are the social consequences of human embryo selection?

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• PALLADIUM 18: Biological Inheritance – letter.palladiummag.com
• Suddenly, Trait-Based Embryo Selection – open.substack.com
• What we talk about when we talk about risk – theinfinitesimal.substack.com

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32. What can we learn from systemic failures?

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• Coordination Problems Why Smart People – Theseedsofscience
• The Wrong Lessons Of Iraq – Thelastpsychiatrist
• The Failure Of Economists – Notonyourteam

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33. What caused the 2008 financial crisis?

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• The Subprime Crisis: Why Asymmetric Information Didn’t Save Us – Econlib
• Unreal Estate – iSteve (Steve Sailer blog)
• Subprime Mortgage Crisis – Federal Reserve History
• No doc loan – Wikipedia
• Countrywide’s Subprime Scandal – Ethics Unwrapped
• Collateralized debt obligation – Wikipedia
• The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report – Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission / U.S. GPO
• President’s Remarks at the 2004 Republican National Convention – George W. Bush White House Archives
• White House Conference on Minority Homeownership: Blueprint for the American Dream – U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• HUD’s Housing Goals for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 2005–2008 – Federal Register

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34. What caused the crime spike in 2020 in the United States?

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• What Caused Last Year’s Spike in Violent Crime? – The Heritage Foundation
• What We Know About the Increase in U.S. Murders in 2020 – Pew Research Center
• Crime in the USA – Patterns in Humanity
• Breaking Down the 2020 Homicide Spike – Manhattan Institute
• Myths and Realities: Understanding Recent Trends in Violent Crime – Brennan Center for Justice
• Elevated Police Turnover Following the Summer of George Floyd – Criminology & Public Policy
• Study: No Clear Link Between Gun Sales Spike and Murder Rise – Axios
• Study: Killings Surge in 2020 as Pandemic, Protests Play Roles – MPR News
• 30 Months Of Great News On Falling – Slowboring

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35. What explains the rise in autism diagnoses?

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• [On RFK, Jr. on Autism]( – ) – *In My Tribe (Substack)**
• Getting Real About Autism’s Exponential Explosion – National Council on Severe Autism
• Heritability of Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Meta-Analysis of Twin Studies – Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry
• Explaining the Increase in the Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Proportion Attributable to Changes in Reporting Practices – JAMA Pediatrics
• Diagnostic Change and the Increased Prevalence of Autism – International Journal of Epidemiology
• Etiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Autistic Traits Over Time – JAMA Psychiatry
• Data and Statistics on Autism Spectrum Disorder – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Environmental Risk Factors for Autism: An Evidence-Based Review of Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses – Molecular Autism
• Advancing Paternal Age and Autism – Archives of General Psychiatry
• Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Preterm Infants: A Meta-analysis – Pediatrics
• The Changing Prevalence of Autism in California – Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders
• Advancing Maternal Age Is Associated With Increasing Risk for Autism: A Review and Meta-Analysis – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• Update on Diagnostic Classification in Autism – Current Opinion in Psychiatry
• Whats The Deal With Autism Rates – Cremieux
• Why Autism Rates Increased – The New York Times

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36. What is “woke” ideology?

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• Where Did Wokeness Come From? – The Nature‑Nurture‑Nietzsche Newsletter
• Woke as Managerial Ideology – Aporia
• The origin of woke: a George Mason view – Gray Mirror
• The Cultural Contradictions of the Anti‑Woke – Musa al‑Gharbi Substack
• Trends that Created the Woke – From Poverty to Progress
• Why We Need to Talk about the Right’s Stupidity Problem – Nathan Cofnas’s Newsletter
• The Origins of Wokeness – PaulGraham.com
• A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution – Nathan Cofnas’s Newsletter
• Wokeism’s Deeper Roots – Law & Liberty

• Wokeism Is Not A "Gnostic Heresy" – keithwoods.pub

• Wokeness Runs Home - by Chris Bray – chrisbray.substack.com

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37. What is antidepressant discontinuation syndrome?

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• Going Off Antidepressants – Health
• Pmc7970174 – Pmc
• Stopping Antidepressants Information Resource Print Version 18 03 24 – Rcpsych
• 195308748 – Core
• Pmc8061160 – Pmc
• Playing Whack A Mole With The Uncertainties – Psychiatrymargins

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38. What is personal superintelligence?

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• https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/

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39. What is race?

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• Race and Racism – Handbook of Social Psychology (6th ed., Situational Press, 2025)
• How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of “Race” – The New York Times
• The case for race realism – Aporia
• Developing: Debate on ‘Race’ and Genomics – Science & Justice Research Center
• Changing the concept of race: On UNESCO and cultural internationalism – Global Intellectual History
• Chapter 5: The Genetics of Race – A Troublesome Inheritance (Penguin Press, 2014)
• AI recognition of patient race in medical imaging: a modelling study – The Lancet Digital Health
• Race and Genealogy: Buffon and the Formation of the Concept of “Race” – Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies
• Human genetic diversity: Lewontin’s fallacy – BioEssays
• Race: a social destruction of a biological concept – Biology & Philosophy
• How Embryo Selection Technology exposes the Transferability Paradox – open.substack.com
• Current status: it’s complicated – Razib Khan

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40. What is right-wing Progressivism?

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• https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-right-wing-progressives
• https://pmarca.substack.com/p/the-techno-optimist-manifesto

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41. What is the replication crisis?

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• Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science – Science
• [~75 % of Psychology Claims Are False]( – ) – *Unsafe Science (Substack)**
• The Long Shadow of Fraud in Alzheimer’s Research – The New York Times
• Revisiting Stereotype Threat: A Reckoning for Social Psychology – Michael Inzlicht
• The Staggering Death Toll of Scientific Lies – Vox
• Medicine Is Plagued by Untrustworthy Clinical Trials. How Many Studies Are Faked or Flawed? – Nature

• Are Most Published Research Findings False? Trends in Statistical Power, Publication Selection Bias, and the False Discovery Rate in Psychology (1975–2017) – PLOS One

• The Collapse Of Ego Depletion – Speakandregret

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42. Why are fertility rates declining in most nations?

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• JD Vance, Elon Musk Are Right About Falling Birth Rates — Here’s Where They Get It Wrong – The Hill
• Fertility rate, total (births per woman) – World Bank
• Fertility, mortality, migration, and population scenarios for 195 countries and territories from 2017 to 2100: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study – The Lancet
• There’s a Link Between Therapy Culture and Childlessness – The New York Times
• Dependency and Depopulation? Confronting the Consequences of a New Demographic Reality – McKinsey Global Institute
• The New Economics of Fertility – IMF Finance & Development
• You Decide: Should We Worry About the Declining Birth Rate? – NC State CALS News
• What Is Driving the Global Decline of Human Fertility? Need for a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Underlying Mechanisms – Frontiers in Reproductive Health
• The dawn of the posthuman age – Noah Smith
• The Birth-Rate Crisis Isn’t as Bad as You’ve Heard—It’s Worse – The Atlantic
• Where Have All The Babies Gone – Substack
• Webpage – sas.upenn.edu

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43. Why do some Christians believe it is their religious duty to support Israel?

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• Evangelicals And Israel – Christiancentury
• The Biggest Fans Of President Trumps Israel Policy Evangelical Christians – The Washington Post
• 614812 – Theatlantic
• The Israel Lobby – Lrb
• More White Evangelicals Than American Jews Say God Gave Israel To The Jewish People – Pewresearch
• The History Of Dispensationalism – Substack

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44. Why has talk about trauma become so popular?

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• The Body Keeps The Score Is Bullshit – Substack

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45. Why is Stoicism becoming popular again?

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• [Stoicism: The Ancient Remedy to the Modern Age]( – ) – *The Prism (Substack)**
• The Revival of Stoicism – VICE
• Stoicism 5.0: The Unlikely 21st‑Century Reboot of an Ancient Philosophy – The Conversation
• Why Stoicism Is Having a Cultural Moment – Daily Stoic
• Stoicism as a Fad and a Philosophy – Psychology Today

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46. Why is the United States prison population so high?

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• How many are criminals? – inquisitivebird.xyz

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47. Why is there so much financial fraud in Minnesota?

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• Feeding Our Future – Wikipedia
• 62 Investigations Underway Involving Federally‑Funded Minnesota Child‑Care Centers – KSTP 5 Eyewitness News
• Report: Minnesota Department of Education’s “Inadequate Oversight” of Feeding Our Future Opened Door to Fraud – Star Tribune
• Minnesota Department of Education: Oversight of Feeding Our Future – Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor
• Commerce Fraud Bureau Annual Report 2023 – Minnesota Department of Commerce
• Minnesota Couple Indicted in $15 Million Medical Billing Fraud Scheme – U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Minnesota
• Bank Ordered to Pay $564 Million to Victims of Petters Fraud – CBS Minnesota / AP
• Projected Deficit Renews Focus on Fraud in Minnesota – Axios Twin Cities
• https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-11-investigates-tackling-fraud-minnesota-lawmakers-pass-key-reforms/ – KARE 11
• Minnesota Autism Expert Said He Started Suspecting Fraud A Year Ago – KSTP
• A Somali-American former investigator: why you’re hearing about fraud in my community – Minnesota Reformer
• From Feeding the Kids to Fleecing the Government: Inside the Country’s Largest COVID Fraud – Washington Free Beacon

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48. Why were mental hospitals closed in the United States?

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• Deinstitutionalization in the United States – Wikipedia
• Hard Truths About Deinstitutionalization, Then and Now – CalMatters
• The Truth About Deinstitutionalization – The Atlantic
• Bedlam 1946 – PBS American Experience
• Deinstitutionalization Through Optimism: The Community Mental Health Act of 1963 – American Journal of Psychiatry Residents’ Journal
• Tracking the History of State Psychiatric Hospital Closures, 1997–2015 – NRI Research Institute
• Deinstitutionalization (Special Report, The New Asylums) – PBS Frontline
• An Effective Program for Treating the Mentally Ill Could Be at Risk – City Journal

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