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o ban it because of free speech. All right, let me deal with the Rand Paul complaint. So you know that typically I love my Rand Paul, but he's in my opinion analytically just totally wrong on this one. Now he says it's a free speech thing and you don't want to be against free speech so don't ban it. Now I like the simplicity of the argument. However it's not really a free speech question. Let me…
← Previous segment →in charge of our government, the intelligence people, is that they don't have access to it, the back door, and China does. So certainly America wants to be the only one who has access to the social media platforms so that they can tweak it as they did with the Twitter files or at least know what people are doing.
All right, so if it turns, a company wants to buy it and then actually gets away with buying it, that's going to tell you a lot about that company. You might not want to know that stuff.
All right, I saw an article that people think they can do lie detecting by just looking at people and that it's not true. That there are no reliable nonverbal cues from liars. Do you believe that? Do you believe that you can't tell who's lying by looking at the body language? Well they did some tests and they said that people look for when you can't look somebody in the eye but they found there's no difference between liars and non-liars in terms of eye contact. Probably that's more about being shy, right? And then they also said there's no correlation with fidgeting. So if you look nervous it didn't make much difference to predicting whether you were lying. Do you believe that? I believe it because by the time somebody's trying to determine if you're lying it's already a tense situation. So I could imagine everybody's fidgety if they're being accused of lying and it matters. But here's their take is that the way you can detect lying the best is by looking at what they say or don't say, their choice of words.
Now I've told you the same thing. That choice of words always tells you what's going on. The day before Nikki Haley dropped out of the race, do you know what she said? I'm not dropping out of the race yet. She actually said yet. And I said oh you're going to do it tomorrow. And then she did it tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. If somebody puts yet at the end of a sentence they mean yet. They mean it. She was very clearly telling you she was lying because the yet told you she was going to do it tomorrow and she did.
Now I do agree that words are a better detector. However here's what they have wrong. The eyes definitely tell you if somebody's lying. Now there are a few exceptions. A psychopath's eyes will not tell you anything because they'll tell you a lie the same as even with details the same as if they told the truth. You can't tell the difference if they're psychopaths or sociopaths. If somebody's a professional, let's say a trial lawyer, they would also be practiced at keeping their face normal while they tell something that isn't true. But if you catch somebody in a casual spontaneous situation and they're not a professional their eyes will tell you everything you need to know. You just have to look for it.
Rachel Maddow does the rapid blinking. Watch it. When she's listening she blinks normally. When she's saying something that everybody agrees with and is obvious, normal. But then when she does her closer it'll be something like and that's why Trump is going to give a reach around to Putin and then she goes into the rapid blinking. So it's not a coincidence. And then you look at the people, the Democrats who do the wide-eyed thing. The wide-eye thing is just the easiest tell. You can see that right away. You know it's like three fake things and then one wide-eye thing. It's like yes the unemployment rate is looking pretty good and you know the job claims are good but Trump is the one that let people in the border. And then her eyes go big and you can see the wrinkles in the forehead because the eyebrows go up when they lie. It's very obvious.
All right, Fox News is reporting that almost all the hospitals are trying to increase the racial diversity among the leadership. So you might have some risk of flying or going to the hospital that's a little extra. Now I hasten to say not because of diversity. That's not the point. There's no risk that comes from just diversity. The risk is trying too hard to get diversity. Do we all agree on that? The problem is not the diversity. It's the trying too hard in a situation where the pipeline doesn't have enough to select.
You know the one thing that the Republicans absolutely get wrong, like just terribly, terribly wrong, is they should say that systemic racism is real and the only place you can stop it is in the early school. That's what they should say. Systemic racism, totally real. And the only place you can stop it practically is making sure everybody has a good education. If you have a good education it won't bother you as much. You'll be able to slice through it as an adult. But if you don't and you don't have any skills, yeah probably it does matter what your ethnicity is. But you want to make it not matter by just being capable. That's usually all you need. So yes the Republicans should be saying we love diversity. We hate forced diversity because it forces you to try too hard and then bad things happen. That's what I say.
All right, so there's a study that say
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s a single dose of LSD can give people lasting anxiety relief and the FDA has granted breakthrough therapy status to LSD to treat generalized anxiety disorder. Now that just means breakthrough therapy. Does that mean you can do it or that means you can test it? Let's see. It still has to go through trials. So I guess that's just approval to get to go into a trial, right? Just approval for a trial.…
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