Tag Archives : truth

The usual thinking about torture is that ‘pain will make the guilty confess.’ A whole new study coming out of Harvard University refutes that all the way around. These researchers are now saying that, contrary to popular belief, ‘the pain of torture can make even the innocent seem guilty.’ The research appears in the Journal of Experimental [...]

The modern skeptic ‘thinks that belief in X ought to be proportional to the amount of evidence supporting X.’ That means ‘extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.’ Thus, modern skeptics do not necessarily reject new claims; it’s just that they weigh them against the evidence attendant to the claim. That puts to light conspiracy [...]

Fifty year old Natalia Estemirova was a human rights campaigner working with Memorial, the Russian human rights organisation which investigated human rights violations both in Chechnya and Russia. She has documented hundreds of human rights abuse in Chechnya and was a well known regional expert. She was a close friend and colleague of famous human rights [...]

A good leader worthy of loyal following is fundamentally honest. This translates to the corollary qualities of being truthful, ethical, and principled. There is no escaping the fact that the only way to gain people’s trust and confidence is for a leader to have integrity and character. People can only believe the leader that they can trust. A leader [...]