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THE SILLY SIXTEEN

THE CORONA CONSPIRACY

1. Corona, Oxygen, 5G: The Paranoid Worldview of David Icke	2. Debunking Andrew Kaufman's Virus Equals Exosome Hypothesis
3. We Need to Talk about Exosomes	4. Why Viruses are Not Exosomes
5. The Alternative Facts of Virus Denialism	6. The Subtle Science of Whole Genome Sequencing
7. Stefan Lanka's Vanishing Virus Act	8. Coping with Corona: The Cautious vs. The Reckless
9. Andrew Kaufman's Take on the Pandemic That Wasn't	10. Between Alarmism and Denialism
11. David Icke and the Method in the Madness	12. How the Coronavirus Conquered the World
13. To Test or Not to Test, That's the Question	14. Pandemic, Infodemic, Scamdemic, Plandemic?
15. The "Chromosome 8 Bombshell Evidence" Canard	16. What's Up With These "Koch's Postulates"?
17. Was the SARS-CoV-2 virus created in the Wuhan lab?	18. QAnon, When Conspirituality Meets Politics
19. Thomas Cowan and "The Myth of Contagion"	20. PCR-Gate: A Storm in a Petri Dish? - 100.000 views on Twitter!
21. David Icke: 'QAnon is a Psyop, a Scam!'	22. The Million-Dollar Question About COVID-19
23. 'The SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Has Never Been Isolated'	24. PCR-Gate 2: When Lockdown Skeptics Pose as Expert Scientists
25. The Unholy Alliance of Corona Conspiracy Theorists	26. Twitter Review of the "COVID-19 Myths" Webinar
27. David Icke Shouts Out: 'There Is No Bloody Virus!'	28. Stefan Lanka's Counterfeit "Control Experiments"
29. Where Are All These PCR 'False Positives' Anyways?	30. Is SARS-CoV-2 the Phantom of the COVID-19 Opera?
31. Andrew Kaufman and the "Fake Delta Variant"	32. Where's the Control Experiment Protocol, Stefan?
Appendix 1. Fifteen Facets of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus	Appendix 2. The Silly Sixteen: Who's Who in Corona Conspiracy Country
Appendix 3. My Corona Conspiracy Twitter Contacts	REVIEWS

RECENT POSTINGS

BERGE HERMETIC QABALAH MEETS COGNITIVE SCIENCE	SATTLER SCIENCE AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
VISSER THE CORONA CONSPIRACY: Part 31: Andrew Kaufman and the "Fake Delta Variant"	COLLINS REVISITING PERSPECTIVES, Part 5: Zoning in on Wilber's Perspectives and Methodologies
MORRIS DENIAL, ALARMISM AND THE COVID-19 CRISIS	CORBETT PROSPECTS FOR A POST-INTEGRAL SPECIES, RECONSIDERED, Or, Why the Old Third Tier is the New First Tier
CORBETT WHY SECOND TIER IS FOURTH TIER, AND WHY THIRD TIER IS POINTLESS	PARKER ON BURNING A NOTEBOOK
DILLARD BRUCE ALDERMAN'S GRAMMATICAL PHILOSOPHEMES AS APPLIED TO DREAM SOCIOMETRY	VISSER THE CORONA CONSPIRACY: Appendix 3: My Corona Conspiracy Twitter Contacts

Rupert Sheldrake and the Evo-Devo Revolution

Wilber and Laszlo: Two Authors of Evolutionary Fiction

Reading Room Top 10

1. SCOFIELD TECH BRO GURU, Inside the Sedona Cult of Bentinho Massaro	6. SCOFIELD THE GUCCI GURU, Inside Teal Swan's Posh Cult
2. VISSER THE CORONA CONSPIRACY: Part 1: Corona, Oxygen, 5G - The Paranoid Worldview of David Icke	7. VISSER THE CORONA CONSPIRACY: Part 2: Debunking Andrew Kaufman's Virus Equals Exosome Hypothesis
3. WILBER RNASE ENZYME DEFICIENCY DISEASE: Wilber's statement about his health	8. VISSER THE CORONA CONSPIRACY: Part 28: Stefan Lanka's Counterfeit "Control Experiments"
4. VISSER THE CORONA CONSPIRACY: Appendix 2: The Silly Sixteen: Who's Who in Corona Conspiracy Country	9. VISSER THE CORONA CONSPIRACY: Part 7: Stefan Lanka's Vanishing Virus Act
5. VISSER WHY IDEALISM IS BONKERS, Some Reflections on the Philosophy of Bernardo Kastrup	10. LANE THE PARADOX OF DA FREE JOHN
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Is there a spiritual purpose behind evolution? Review of Steve McIntosh Evolution's Purpose by Frank Visser

What do these revolutionaries really know about evolution? Review of Carter Phipps' Evolutionaries by Frank Visser

FRANK VISSER’S ESSAYS

VISSER A MORE ADEQUATE SPECTRUM OF COLORS?, A Comparison of color terminology in chakra-psychology, Integral Theory and Spiral Dynamics	VISSER WILBER OR TRUTH? How to Get Rid of Your Wilber Complex
VISSER BIG HISTORY AND INTEGRAL THEORY: Bill Bryson Meets Ken Wilber	VISSER THE WILD WEST WILBER REPORT: Looking back on the Wyatt Earp Episode (2006)
VISSER OUR DNA AS PROOF FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE? Review of Perry Marshall's "Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design"	VISSER 'EQUILIBRIUM IS DEATH': Energy, Entropy, Evolution and the Paradox of Life's Complexity
VISSER "FROM DIRT TO DIVINITY": Ken Wilber's pre-Darwinian Understanding of Evolution	VISSER A SELF-HELP GUIDE FOR DEMOCRATS, Review of Ken Wilber's "Trump and a Post-Truth World"
VISSER WHY KEN WILBER IS WRONG ABOUT EVOLUTION, And Ignores the Evidence For It (Two Academic Papers, 2010, 2020	VISSER INTEGRAL THEORY AND COSMIC EVOLUTION: A Naturalistic Approach

FROM THE ARCHIVES

LANE WILBER AND THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF EVOLUTION	HEMSELL KEN WILBER AND SRI AUROBINDO: A Critical Perspective
VISSER BIG HISTORY AND INTEGRAL THEORY: Bill Bryson Meets Ken Wilber	VISSER WILBER VS. COYNE: On The Conflict Between Science and Religion and the (Im)possibility of a Resolution
FALK WILBER AND BOHM: An Analysis of the Problems with Ken Wilber's 'Refutations' of David Bohm's Ideas	MEYERHOFF DISMISSAL VS. DEBATE: A Reply to Ken Wilber's Audio Rebuttal
MEYERHOFF SIX CRITICISMS OF WILBER'S INTEGRAL THEORY	FALK BALD NARCISSISM [On the Wyatt Earp Episode]
CARLSON INTEGRAL IDEOLOGY: An Ideological Genealogy of Integral Theory and Practice	VISSER MY CRITICAL ESSAYS ON KEN WILBER

Ideology and inflation: the shadow of integral movement: Interview with Frank Visser by Maxim Korman

Bald Ambition: A Critique of Ken Wilber's Theory of Everything

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