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    #9  A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • Jul 21, 2020
    • 13 min

    #9 A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

    PROLOGUE I have just spent nearly two weeks working on an accessible, useful piece of philosophy about the fundamental origins of our...
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    CC7 & LSS4  What role is hypnosis playing in these strange times?
    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • Jun 25, 2020
    • 9 min

    CC7 & LSS4 What role is hypnosis playing in these strange times?

    I was interviewed on the podcast, “Escape from Lockdown” the other day and told a story about putting someone into an hypnotic trance. I...
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    CC6   Podcast ramble and Catch-up
    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • Jun 19, 2020
    • 4 min

    CC6 Podcast ramble and Catch-up

    Last week Alex McCarron very kindly invited me to chat with him on his excellent podcast, “Escape from Lockdown.” Click here to...
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    CC5 & LSS3   Why did we make these mistakes?
    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • Jun 4, 2020
    • 8 min

    CC5 & LSS3 Why did we make these mistakes?

    As the UK moves into semi-un-lockdown and ongoing economic collapse it’s a good moment to ask, “Why did that happen?” In CC2 I explored...
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    CC4 & LSS2  We can do better than 'Follow the Science'
    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • May 14, 2020
    • 14 min

    CC4 & LSS2 We can do better than 'Follow the Science'

    [I was hoping to keep the two strands of this blog separate but the global response to Sars-CoV-2 is a perfect example of how we are...
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    CC3  Who will replace Neil Ferguson?
    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • May 6, 2020
    • 4 min

    CC3 Who will replace Neil Ferguson?

    The resignation of Neil Ferguson opens a vacancy on the SAGE committee and a chance to modify our response to Sars-CoV-2. Our death toll...
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    CC2   Covid, Brexit and Flying Saucers…
    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • May 5, 2020
    • 4 min

    CC2 Covid, Brexit and Flying Saucers…

    In 1954 Leon Festinger, one of the most respected social psychologists of the 20th Century, joined a cult whose members believed that...
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    Dr Hugh Willbourn
    • Apr 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    CC1 When you've finished clapping ...

    If the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service were to announce that the Service had run out of cars, or uniforms, or handcuffs,...
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    #36  A Decent Democracy
    Dr Hugh Willbourn

    #36 A Decent Democracy

    “In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Table Talk' 5 October 1830 (1835) How come a poet, a...
    #35 Books I haven't written yet:  A new Series of Podcasts
    Dr Hugh Willbourn

    #35 Books I haven't written yet: A new Series of Podcasts

    I have started a new series of Podcasts over at the Power House called, “Books I haven’t written yet.” I have too many notes for too...
    #34  Beware the Old Normal
    Dr Hugh Willbourn

    #34 Beware the Old Normal

    Some covid-related restrictions are being lifted in some places and we are now well into revisionism and cover-ups. Our Governments can...