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What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?

In this complex information age, distinguishing between rigorous scientific fact and veiled pseudoscience is a pressing challenge. In the vein of my previous writings on information pollution and cognitive biases, let us now consider a series of questions we can ask ourselves to gauge the scientific integrity of an idea or claim:

In recent years, a confluence of events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, increasing economic instability, global warming, and political corruption, have merged into what is now termed a poly-crisis or meta-crisis. This tumultuous landscape, rife with uncertainties, is deeply unsettling. As the mainstream falls short in explaining these events and the simultaneous occurrence of multiple crises, many people turn to alternative narratives in an attempt to understand what is happening.

In today's ever-evolving information landscape, media platforms, both legacy and alternative, wield unprecedented influence in shaping public opinion. Within this media ecosystem, familiarity with the inherent "failure conditions" of each media source is becoming increasingly important.