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Bullshitocracy: we live inside the Liar's Paradox

Few years back, John Stewart coined the term Bullshitocracy. Now, US courts have recognized that the
executive branch of the US Government is a bullshitocracy. In their turn, the executive branch not only acknowledged the fact but enthusiastically embraced the doctrine because it allows their head to lie without any consequences.

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“At the University of Copenhagen, scientists got blood samples from 154 girls ranging in age from ten to fifteen. They cracked open the cells in the blood and searched them for Y chromosomes. In 2016 they reported that twenty-one girls—more than 13 percent—had them. Because the girls did not have sons of their own, the scientists concluded that their Y-chromosome–carrying cells originated in their brothers, were left behind in their mothers after birth, and then made their way into the bodies of the girls while they were still fetuses. It’s also possible that the cells came from male fetuses that their mothers miscarried or had aborted.”
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“Fischbach and Loike observed that a surrogate mother and a baby may end up connected in the most profound way possible. Cells from the fetus may embed themselves throughout her body, perhaps for life. And she may bequeath some of her cells to the child. This is not merely a thought experiment. In 2009, researchers at Harvard did a study on eleven surrogate mothers who carried boys but who never had sons of their own. After the women gave birth, the scientists found Y chromosomes in the bloodstreams of five of them.”

-- Carl Zimmer. “She Has Her Mother's Laugh.”