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What online health gurus don’t want you to know

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Now that we know that they make more from AdSense than the biggest commercial TV channel in a year it is time to look at online health gurus and what motivates them. (Spoiler: it is not the goodness of their hearts) Continue reading →

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CBDC is dangerous for free societies

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) make it possible for the government to see and control your wallet all the time. That is why they want it. Continue reading →

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How Orbán navigates between Putin and the upcoming elections

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

It is impossible to tell what he stands for now but it is definitely disgraceful. Continue reading →

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The race is on to publish the first poll results about the war – and the results are even more unreliable than usual

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

Whoever delivers the first results about Hungarians’ supposed opinion about Putin’s war on Ukraine will influence public opinion more than it surveys it. This is why it is so worrying that the first polls are even more unreliable than usual. Continue reading →

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For students on plagiarism: If you can google it, I can google it

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

By the time plagiarism software was invented students forgot how to use a library. Google is now enough to catch most of them. Continue reading →

Orbán’s about-face in Europe and continued Putinism at home
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Orbán’s about-face in Europe and continued Putinism at home

Posted on March, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

It doesn’t seem at all convincing that Orbán finally found the democrat inside. Continue reading →

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Putin’s interests are not the same as Russia’s and an expert who fails to make that distinction is not much of an expert

Posted on February, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

If you choose your analytical tools poorly, your conclusions will be wrong. Continue reading →

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Is it really wrong to out homophobic politicians?

Posted on February, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

There is a type of double standard that really bothers me. Continue reading →

Gay panic at ‘Death in Venice’
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Gay panic at ‘Death in Venice’

Posted on January, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

A few weeks before the pandemic began the Croatian National Ballet visited Budapest. Continue reading →

Understanding privilege and prejudice through bird feeding
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Understanding privilege and prejudice through bird feeding

Posted on January, 2022 by MwBp • Leave a comment

What is nasty opportunism from a pigeon is regarded as cleverness from a songbird. Continue reading →

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