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Memetic narratives, imaginary friends, and timely updates to the DSM
It has to be the case that the professoriate and committee governing the DSMV thinks that admitting that adults with imaginary omnipotent...

Dr Bruce Long
Dec 1, 20212 min read
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Megacults, delusion, and the DSM
I hypothesise that the most excellent Chaplain Murray is baffled because certain apparent social norms and cultural narratives currently...

Dr Bruce Long
Nov 30, 20213 min read
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The US Withdrawal from Afghanistan as a Geostrategic Manoeuvre
Did the US really fail to serve its geostrategic interests by withdrawing from Afghanistan? It is unlikely that this planned withdrawal...

Dr Bruce Long
Aug 17, 20219 min read
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Cryptocurrencies and De-Centralisation of Finance: Another reason the US Elite fear China
Apparently big banks around the world are terribly concerned about the influence of cryptocurrency markets. China is undoubtedly part of...

Dr Bruce Long
Aug 5, 20213 min read
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Are people with an omniscient imaginary friend mentally ill? Of course. You already know this.
Is it really pathological for megacultists to believe that there is an omniscient, omnipotent being intervening in their lives, speaking...

Dr Bruce Long
Jul 1, 202128 min read
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Draft Policy Platform for Dr Bruce Long and Progress Party (Senate Election Campaign)
Download the latest draft policy platform document here:

Dr Bruce Long
May 23, 20211 min read
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Mischievous responding, the illusion of consensus, and the memetic channel constraint problem.
SWRG Anti-misinformation Project Theory Report Mischievous responding, the illusion of consensus, and the memetic channel constraint...

Dr Bruce Long
May 19, 20211 min read
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Zoonosis, bad luck, racism, and megacult delusion.
The best experts on the globe are still saying COVID is zoonotic. These researchers have scientific reputations to uphold. True, rigorous...

Dr Bruce Long
May 16, 20213 min read
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One rules based order to go?
Australian political pundits are scrambling to make sense, political mileage, and career points, out of the plainly destructive nonsense...

Dr Bruce Long
May 8, 20218 min read
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Cross-Strait narrative warfare and the anti-China 'Quad'
In a recently published piece on Taiwan-China relations and the conflicting narratives of the West and China about Taiwan, Jessica Drun...

Dr Bruce Long
Apr 6, 20213 min read
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Informational force multipliers
Social media is an informational force multiplier that favours individuals and social movements, but my working hypothesis is that it...

Dr Bruce Long
Apr 2, 20215 min read
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What's going on with post truth plus postmodernism? A brief layperson's explainer.
Formal and academic discussions about the concepts of post truth and postmodernism are usually inaccessible to lay people due to the...

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 20, 20218 min read
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SWRG Statistics Module: World Bank Data on National Science and Technology Capabilities
See a full page version here.

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 16, 20211 min read
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SWRG Data Module: World Bank Data on National Statistical Capacity
See a full page version here.

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 14, 20211 min read
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SWRG AMP Statistics Module China Vs India
You can use the 'ctrl' and 'shift' keys to make multiple selections from the list of countries:

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 13, 20211 min read
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New Geopolitics and Cognitive Science Data Visualisation
SWRG is deploying world-leading tools to produce data visualisations for experiments and studies. Our new R/R-Studio/Shinyverse...

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 12, 20211 min read
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MEMETIC NARRATIVE SOURCES DATABASE PROJECT
Our new research database is ready for applications. It is designed for experiments and studies that invesigate: - The informational...

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 6, 20211 min read
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There is p-Hacking, file drawer data, and confirmation bias. Then there is ASPI's 'So what?' data.
The entire point of this report and (very limited) data analysis from ASPI seems to be that the CPC and its various state and other media...

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 5, 20216 min read
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The Illusion of Consensus and Basic Source Discrimination
(Read the full aticle at IIMx) The shortcut trick to better informational power of discernment is: it [source type-heterogeneity] always...

Dr Bruce Long
Mar 1, 20211 min read
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The very much religious basis of terror in Xinjiang, and an error of judgement...
The political spin and memetic pseudo-informational narrative construction that China has to deal with from a hypocritical West is some...

Dr Bruce Long
Feb 26, 20213 min read
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