The recent reports about people setting fire to 5G masts in Birmingham and on Merseyside because of conspiracy theories on the Internet about the signal either reducing people’s immune systems or that it is spreading the coronavirus have drawn condemnation as clearly ridiculous. I would merely comment as a historian that this is just the latest version of very old societal phobias. In the middle ages during epidemics some of the credulous believed that the disease was caused by the Jews going round poisoning the wells.....Not even the extreme end of the Labour Party has come up with that one - yet.
Another Admission Against Interest: “Loss of the Collective Memory of Rites”
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In law, the term “admission against interest” refers to a statement made
out of court by a party, which is regarded as true because it goes against
that pa...
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