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VISSER THE RETURN OF THE GOD HYPOTHESIS, A Skeptical Review of Stephen Meyer's latest book	VISSER FROM TAKING SIDES TO BOTHSIDESISM, A Catalogue of Positions on the Middle East War
BALDWIN UNDERSTANDING VIROLOGY FOR SKEPTICS, Unveiling the Scientific Realm Through Scientific Rebuttal to Five Virus Denier Arguments	VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 A SPIRAL DYNAMICS ANALYSIS OF THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT
VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 ANTISEMITISM'S DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS, Navigating Israel-Palestine Relations through UN Resolutions and International Law	VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT, From Unsolvability to the Vision of Peaceful Coexistence
VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT QUADRANT QUESTIONS	VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 THE REALIST VIEW OF GEOPOLITICS, Assessing the Criticisms and Implications
REYNOLDS LAST NIGHT I HAD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DREAM BEYOND WAR	LANE RADIANCE WITHOUT AN EDGE, The Mystical Way of Onenes
VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 DEBUNKING ISRAEL MYTHS, Ilan Pappé's Ten Myths About Israel	VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 WAR PROPAGANDA TACTICS, Anna Morelli's Ten Principles of War Propaganda

Rupert Sheldrake and the Evo-Devo Revolution

Wilber and Laszlo: Two Authors of Evolutionary Fiction

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1. VISSER THE RETURN OF THE GOD HYPOTHESIS, A Skeptical Review of Stephen Meyer's latest book	6. LANE THE GURU WHO WOULDN'T QUIT, Andrew Cohen Emerges from his Downfall
2. VISSER FROM TAKING SIDES TO BOTHSIDESISM, A Catalogue of Positions on the Middle East War	7. LANE STUDYING CULTS, A Forty-Year Reflection
3. VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 ANTISEMITISM'S DEEP HISTORICAL ROOTS, Navigating Israel-Palestine Relations through UN Resolutions and International Law	8. VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 MY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BOT, Table of Contents
4. BALDWIN UNDERSTANDING VIROLOGY FOR SKEPTICS, Unveiling the Scientific Realm Through Scientific Rebuttal to Five Virus Denier Arguments	9. VISSER WHY IDEALISM IS BONKERS, Part 1, Some Reflections on thePhilosophy of Bernardo Kastrup
5. VISSER / CHATGPT-3.5 INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT QUADRANT QUESTIONS	10. WILBER RNASE ENZYME DEFICIENCY DISEASE, Wilber's statement about his health
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THE UKRAINE CRISIS

THOUGHTS ABOUT THE UKRAINE CRISIS

VISSER HUBRIS AND HYPOCRISY ARE PRESENT ON BOTH SIDES, A Reply to Joseph Dillard	VISSER PUTIN'S DARK IDEOLOGY OF A 'SACRED GREATER RUSSIA'
VISSER 'PUTIN HAS A POINT AND THE WEST IS TO BLAME', Confronting Contrarian Views of the Ukraine Crisis	VISSER PUTIN'S POLITICS VIEWED THROUGH AN INTEGRAL LENS, A Perspective from the Field of Adult Development
VISSER PUTIN'S RATIONALIZATION OF THE UKRAINIAN INVASION, Another reply to Joseph Dillard	VISSER SUBJUGATION OR SOVEREIGNTY? That's the question for Ukraine
VISSER IS PUTIN THE NEW TSAR?, Stephen Kotkin on the Ukraine Crisis	VISSER THE 'CATCH-22' OF UKRAINE, A Response to Dillard
VISSER 'BLIND LOYALTY, DISGUISED AS DEFIANCE', Yet Another Response to Dillard	VISSER FROM RUSSIA WITH HATE, Ukraine in Russian War Propaganda

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VISSER / CHATGPT SPIRAL DYNAMICS, Unraveling the Dynamics of Individual and Socio-Cultural Change	VISSER / CHATGPT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, Historical Context and Unsolvability
VISSER / CHATGPT THE EVOLUTION OF TAXONOMY, From Plants and Animals to the Modern Tree of Life	VISSER / CHATGPT UNRAVELING HUMAN CHROMOSOME 2, The Significance of Chromosome Fusion in Evolution
VISSER / CHATGPT THE PURSUIT OF PEACE, Exploring the Possibility of a War-Free Future	VISSER / CHATGPT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS AND THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA CONFLICT, Understanding Their Limitations
VISSER / CHATGPT BEYOND POWER POLITICS, Embracing a Comprehensive Geopolitical Perspective	VISSER / CHATGPT REFLECTING ON WESTERN COLONIALISM, Examining the Past and Shaping the Future
VISSER / CHATGPT GEOPOLITICS, Understanding the Complexities of International Relations	VISSER / CHATGPT THE UKRAINE-RUSSIA CONFLICT, Causes and Approaches to Peace

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

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 Phanthom of the COVID-19 Opera?
31. Andrew Kaufman and the "Fake Delta Variant"	32. Where's the Control Experiment Protocol, Stefan?
33. PCR-Gate 3: The Debate About PCR That Never Really Happened	34. Thomas Cowan and the Spell of Corona
35. Samantha Bailey and 'The COVID-19 Fraud'	36. SARS-CoV-2: Lab Leak or Natural Origin?
37. Jorn Luka Goes 'Seriously In-Depth' with David Icke	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

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

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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

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