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The Reason For NowEpisode 244: Childhood Trauma and Success in Life, Part 1After a lecture by my son's headmaster wherein children are regarded by the Catholic Church as divine we say that wonderfully influences expectations of our kids which moulds behaviour and self esteem which is one of the main determinants of success in life. Andy my co presenter related this to his own experiences with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. We then segway onto social media which destroys self esteem, social skills , causes depression and dissolves concentration in its frenzy of instant gratification and dopamine hits making us all ADHD. We look at how trauma and behavioural shifts can be passed across...2024-02-0347 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 243 - Responsibility for progress , political correctness for stagnation and the end of civilizationResponsibility: Progress in any system is by trial and error. This is how nature works in evolution and how our children grow up through experiences and teaching. Models only work for specific unique situations. Eg laws of gravity , motion etc. in fact many scientific concepts. In fact even those only stay valid until they are disproven or someone comes up with a better concept. The idea that models can be produced for complex systems is not realistic. Yet this is what ‘experts’ are constantly doing in the search for certainty about future predictions of risk...2023-08-2641 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 242: How to enjoy the pain and hard work necessary to succeed in lifeAll the great minds including religion tell us that if we are to progress in life we need to shoulder responsibility which involves hard work and pain. They don't make life sound too appetising with the partial exception of religion in which faith is innate . We argue that they miss out one of the key secrets of life which is self esteem. Thanks to Angela who made this a lovely Podcast touching on many issues affecting our lives including narcissism , the universal wage, Dave Mustaine and Socrates.2023-08-1243 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 241 Processing Blocks And Post Traumatic Stress DisorderPTSD first defined in soldiers returning from the Vietnam War and officially recognised since 1980. The distilled essence which you won't find anywhere else is as follows: Similar to phobias there is a processing block causing an emotion logic gap: I know I should not feel like this but I can't help it. This is because we are hard wired to avoid or reduce anxiety so the brain actively suppresses anything causing anxiety so you can't think about it long enough to bring the emotion down to the logic. No amount of sense or education helps...2023-03-2435 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 240 - An Appraisal Of Jonah Hill's Stutz By Dr TheoStutz Dr Theo I would be fine if I knew what direction to go in I would fly instead I become lazy . We also discussed the first step in therapy which is connecting with your internal energy You do that in 3 steps: 1: Diet exercise and sleep 2: Connecting with others as we are tribal 3: Connecting with yourself your underlying feelings which is self awareness most effectively done by self journaling. The Part X i...2022-12-2347 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 239 - Where Are You From? How Not To Be Offended And Why It Can Be Used For Offence"Where are you from" is considered a micro aggression. Of course in a harmonious society this is a reasonable question indicative of genuine interest. Indeed in a harmonious society to suggest any other motive would be nonsense. However it has become a problem for two reasons in this age of societal collapse where political correctness has been the latest disintegration stage.The first is people are easily offended because they are unhappy and are insecure about their own identity and feel they have no control apart from the politically correct right to offence for which there is no cost...2022-12-0335 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 238 - How Diet Fixes More Than You Could Possibly Imagine And Vice-versaGut Immune Body Brain Axis.Dr Gundry:Leaky Gut, gut microbiome and dietRenowned Cardiovascular Surgeon who realised that all he was doing was treating thesymptoms so he studied the underlying causes.The lining of the gut is one cell thickAs bacteria break down the gut that is when ageing startsIbuprofen or roundup disastrous the bacteria populationSkin is a mirror of the lining of the gutJoints do not naturally wear out.Animal model C Elegans as bacteria begin to break down the wall of the...2022-08-1930 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 237: Midlife Crisis : The Reasons Nobody Talks About.Eliot Jacks 1965 Mid-Life CrisisParadox of prime of life fulfillment in life but seeing it as dated as death is just over the hillNational Geographic 2012Apes Have Midlife Crises, Too—And It May Help ThemMiddle age ruts may act as natural motivators, scientist says.BYAMANDA FIEGLNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWSPUBLISHED NOVEMBER 20, 2012A national survey of Midlife in the United States conducted a poll to determine how many people experience midlife crises. Approximately 26% of the participants reported having a midlife crisis.2022-08-1549 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 236 - The Weight Of ObesityNot medical licensed advice . Always consult with your doctor:New Treatments For ObesityBMI: 25-30 : overweight >30 ObeseWHO 2016 40% are over weight and 13% obese slightly higher in females . This is triple that in 1975UK 2019 House of Commons Library 40% are overweight and 30% obese higher in middle aged and elderly menNHS 2021: Children Obesity has gone up in 12 years from 19% to 25% The Surprising Link Between Chronic Inflammation & Obesity—Plus What You Can Do About ItMay 5th 2021Leptins are hormones produced by adipocytes that...2022-08-0951 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 235 - Depression The Commonest Cause Of Illness And Death . Are You Clinically Depressed Or Unhappy?Depression:The most important thing anyone reading this needs to know is that everyone with depression will get better. The sooner you treat it the quicker and better the results.LIfe time prevalence 4%, in fact in the USA up to 10% struggle with depression.280 million people world-wide suffer from depression.20% risk of suicide in untreated depression.Used to be the 5th commonest cause of illness and death, now it is the commonest.It is not because we have all become genetically susceptible to clinical depression...2022-07-3148 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 234- When Is Anxiety A Problem? Because We Need It To SurviveCoaching: Anxiety Disorder:We all have anxiety, not only is it normal it is essential for survival, in fact as a caveman themore anxiety you had the more likely you were to escape predators and achieve survivalneeds. The irony is that in todays society it these people that suffer the most as just like therest of us they are hard wired to continue escaping illusionary predators and acquireillusionary survival needs that marketing and social media imprison us with.We discussed stress last week which is mostly a normal response for...2022-07-2343 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 233 - Stress. More Lethal Than Any Pandemic Rising Quietly And Exponentially In Our MidstCoaching: Stress:The key to stress is : control. If you have control you are not stressed, if you don’t have control you are stressed.Mental Health Foundation 2018 study:In the past year 75% had at some point felt overwhelmed with stress. Elderly less stressed than younger.Of those who were stressed 50% felt depressed and 60% felt anxious, 50% overate or ate unhealthily,30% increased alcohol and 15% started or increased smoking.Of those who felt stressed at some point in their life 30% had suicidal thoughts and 15% had self harmed.30% felt lonely.2022-07-1748 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 232 - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder - How We All Have Some And How To Cure It.PTSD first defined in soldiers returning from the Vietnam War and officially recognised since 1980.The distilled essence which you won't find anywhere else is as follows:Similar to phobias there is a processing block causing an emotion logic gap: I know I should not feel like this but I can't help it. This is because we are hard wired to avoid or reduce anxiety so the brain actively supresses anything causing anxiety so you can't think about it long enough to bring the emotion down to the logic. No amount of sense or education helps...2022-06-2849 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 231: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Including Educational LawFIrstly about 1 in 10 children have ADHD and about half will grow out of it leaving 1 in 20 adults with ADHD. The long term studies in adults have not been done but the oldest patient I have diagnosed and treated with ADHD was 68.There is a strong genetic component and it is almost certain that other members of the family will have symptoms of ADHD. There is also a greater than average association of ADHD with bipolar disorder and dyslexia.People with ADHD often present with an inexplicable failure to succeed in life. In other words they are...2022-06-1947 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 230: The Reason Why Jonny Depp And amber Heard Are The Tip Of The Iceberg. Personality Disorder Part 2The reason why Depp and Heard are the tip of the ice-berg Personality DIsorder Part 2Personality disorders ie those whoes behavior is by nature consistently anti-tribal are this way due to a combination of nature (genetics) and nuture. They can be born this way or they can be affected by trauma of different types. For borderlines and psychopaths sexual trauma is especially important. Anything that fractures or does not affirm self esteem either acutely or chronically risks going onto also affect socialisation and both together will then create an individual who's behavior purely due to who they a...2022-06-0453 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 229 - Personality disorder: The Best Description And Explanation Currently AvailableThis is the best overview of personality disorder currently available as understanding the distilled rules of human behaviour allows us to analyse the patterns in the world around us with a clarity some may find challenging but most find liberating. We look at the current diagnostic systems and what they try and do and their shortfalls.Simply put most living organisms with self awareness are tribal because nature worked out millions of years ago that living in a tribe conferred a survival advantage to wondering the planes as a nomad.The most fundamental behaviour we all...2022-05-2046 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 228: The Reasons Why Covid And Ukraine Are Brothers By The Same MotherWe take a historical and macroeconomic look at patterns over the centuries that keep on repeating with the different players of various societies. Typically the life span of a society is marked by a slow start a rapid acceleration phase a plateau and a rapid drop off the edge. It's the same for bacteria in a Petri dish in fact. It's a matter of the build up of scale and then the sheer power of mass making competition useless with the big kid on the block until the resources have been used up at which point it is no longer...2022-04-1843 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 227: Stress Trauma Vitamin D3. Modern Life Is The Biggest Cause Of Excess Mortality.Depression used to be the 5 th commonest cause of illness and death 25 years ago go and now it is the commonest we have not suddenly become genetically susceptible to clinical depression people are stressed and unhappy and are not designed for modern life The key element of stress is whether or not you have control if you have control you are not stressed if you're not in control you're stressed Stress via the hormone cortisol is the grim reaper and destroys mind and body. Although all of us experience stress it can become a longer term problem as in...2022-02-2350 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 226 - Lessons Learnt In TherapyIt is a great privilege to discuss with my mentee Alexi the lessons he has learnt over the last 20 years with me. Firstly we all need therapy because it gives us self awareness. The purest our minds will ever be is the moment we are borne and after therapy. We are sensitive recording instruments of everything we experience from the first breath we take and how we express that going forwards is largely determined by the chassis we layer these experiences onto -- our personality. Self awareness usually lies deep within the strata of psychological blocks and damage that we...2022-01-1927 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 225 - 2021 According To The Reason For NowThe 3 contributors discuss 2021 and whether our predictions came true , the why and the how. Lessons to learn, wisdom for the future or just croissants and coffee amongst friends2022-01-1145 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 224: Freedom. The surprising Truth That Few Have Thought Of.Freedom is one of those words that is used daily and the reason for many wars but as far as we can see there is no satisfactory definition of it. The dictionary definition of being free to do what you want (as long as you do no harm) is as Jordan Peterson puts it the 2 year old definition and precisely why 2 year olds need parental supervision. Yet modern society and materialism accelerated by social media has turned most of us into 2 year olds as our self obsession erodes other values of religion culture ethics etc. We are then controlled subconsciously...2021-12-1944 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 223: The Power Of Gratitude And Why It's Not Enough Even If A Ted Talk says So.Christina Costa gives a wonderful Ted Talk on the power of gratitude and how practice makes perfect. However indiscriminate positivity is neither self awareness or practical as plenty of research has shown. Furthermore gratitude in isolation implies passivity which as long as you are happy is not bad. But it also implies little control, just an acceptance and a hope that positive energy will help your lot. Of course most of what psychologists say are out of context nuggets taken from religion. We are hard wired to want to have faith as this calms the mind. The problem is we...2021-12-0445 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 222: Scapegoating From Moses To Corona It Is Human NatureHumans are still evolutionary cavemen where reflex anxiety reduction was necessary for survival. In our concrete jungle there no predators for us to escape from and no basic survival needs to occupy us. We are prisoners of our need to reduce our innate anxiety most of which traps us with cycles of instant gratification and goal seeking.This reflex is reflected on a daily basis by scapegoating. Literally a safety valve for our psychological discomfort. Simply transferring our discomfort to an external object or person or group. At least it would be a safety valve if the consequences of...2021-11-2345 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 221: Faith, will it be the end of us?The human mind does anything to avoid or reduce anxiety. We have the ability to think of difficult questions but lack the intelligence to solve them. In order to achieve peace of mind we deal with this cognitive dissonance by making a best guess and as time passes we become ever more attached to our chosen view point and can even justify it. Thus the cognitive discomfort and anxiety associated with it is allayed as the mind equilibrates back into calmness , also known as peace of mind. Of course materialism and instant gratification which has exponentially risen over the last 50...2021-11-0751 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 220: #Psychology Of #DiplomacyDiplomacy is a skill that often takes years to teach. It is carefully crafted communication respecting the rules of the recipient. Diplomats get sent in to smooth feathers ruffled by politicians most of whom especially in the current UK government seem to care little for truth or integrity or harmony. Diplomacy is the art of making the other people feel understood and empathised with and collaborated with sprinkled with appropriate humour which is a trait unique to humans as opposed to our ape cousins. Leaders need to have diplomatic skills in addition to their specialist team behind them. It is...2021-09-1349 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 219 - Heaven And Hell DecodedEvery society has had some for religion at its core and Monarchy or dictatorship. Democracy has destroyed every society it has taken root in. God is "the word". Truth. There is nothing more powerful than truth. Logic. Hell is unregulated human emotion. Greed. Ecstasy. But the more pleasure you seek the more depressed you get because pleasure dopamine reduces peace of mind serotonin. Heaven is high serotonin and peace of mind while ecstasy in the form of ultimate pleasure is segregated to the next life. Ladies and gentlemen, make your choice. Or rather don't. Because he can't be relied upon...2021-09-0538 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 218: The Story Of A Child Islamic BrideBe inspired by Tahra who bravely and kindly narrates her story for us as part of her own therapy. We identify trauma and self esteem factors, different types of coping styles, self blame and ADHD symptoms but most importantly a happy ending. She continues to be the writer of her own story.2021-08-1654 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 217: The reason for now. Mental Health in Lockdown.Mental Health in lock-down is actually an acceleration of the decline over the last 20-30 years. The Royal College of Psychiatry raised a sentinel flag that something was up with their defeat depression campaign in the 1990s. Since then even up to 2 years ago there are papers published in the Lancet saying that depression continues to be a major epidemic and that doctors should be prescribing more antidepressants. They have missed the point. It is not depression it is the fact we are all becoming more unhappy stressed and anxious. The reason is that we are unsuited to modern life...2021-08-0148 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 216: The reason for today.We are a failing civilisation, we are on the plateau of the sine wave that defines the progress of most entities which develop grow and fail. So far we have followed it to the letter. Slow start, then sudden exponential growth followed by a plateau which is where we are now followed by precipitous fall. The driving force and inspiration for the ascent of man is indeed God and it is the lack of God which has started our down-fall. Humans are tribal and religion is a transcontinental tribe joining the masses in relative peace and collaboration as well as...2021-07-2451 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 215: Imperial College have misled the UK. The two most important questions to ask yourself to improve.Imperial College with the best minds in the world came up with two models about lock-down , applied one to UK data and the other to US data. The UK model shows lock-down saved 3 million lives -and published it in Nature and the US model shows it has no effect. If you apply the model sent to the US to the UK data you also are left with the result that lock-down does not work. But it is the the original UK model which was published in Nature. Of course if Nature knew this then they are complicit with Imperial college...2021-07-0449 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 214: Corona vaccine truths, government insights, how to feel better quick.We humbly ask you our audience to decide for yourselves whether practice is finally living up to the the old maim or at least heading that way with our latest podcast. As far as corona virus and vaccines are concerned we speak pure science and statistics although we do indulge in carefully weighted opinion of those who should be leading us and protecting our interests. Why is it then that the action of merely typing this last sentence suffused me with a disconcerting sense of cognitive dissonance? We discuss the health or rather illness and disease fallouts of lockdown and...2021-06-1940 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 213: Act in Haste...repent with spongiform encephalopathyWeek 60 of flattening the curve... vaccines? Have 2 but still wear masks and restrict travel and pay £500 for PCR tests. Would you have believed this a year ago? Now a pharmaceutical company have come up with a fix for the clots caused by Astra Zeneca vaccine which has killed more young people than corona virus. Of course if the vaccines had been developed properly in the first place this would not have occurred. Negligent homicide? You decide. more ugly truths are bubbling to the surface about the vaccines despite the best efforts of social media blockade. Quote: We thought the Spike p...2021-05-3047 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 212: The secret of power in a democracy but is it good for us?The secret of power in a democracy but is it good for us? What does this mean? Surely power to the people is a good thing? Really? In reality the more power to the people the more Marxist we become , the more politically correct and woke and the more homogeneous all groups have to become with any expression of difference especially one of advantage attacked with savage sanctimoniousnous usually by people who without the artificial mantle of authority would not even reach the lowest rung of the Richter scale of significance. And there is the problem. Power to the people...2021-05-1643 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 211: Living for the Future or living for the moment ? Week 54 of flattening the curve...We are all brain-washed from an early age into thinking that sacrifice now allows you to scale the peaks of enlightened contentment at some point in the distant future. And it is this sense of virtuosity that keeps on driving us through stress and loneliness robbing us of any sense of self awareness with the result that our idealised destination always stays a tantalising figment of one's imagination as we slowly become more bitter and twisted and consumed by anger and self pity.The immediate response of the masses is instant gratification without any thought about the future which...2021-05-0347 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 210 : Is Government or Social Media running the country?For the first time in history a single idea can spin round the globe in seconds and form part of a global narrative. Unfortunately the fertility of the ground for each seed of an idea is inversely related to its veracity such that lies travel 6 times faster than the truth mainly because lies are more shocking than truth. This explains why the British accept catastrophic changes to their liberties in the name of an cold virus yet rise up en mass about the European Super League.Vested interest causes is a slave of global narrative in democracies let alone...2021-04-2645 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 209: Does lock-down cause 3rd waves and more dangerous variants as well as a 200 fold increase in NHS waiting lists!We discuss the evidence for lock-downs causing 3rd waves and more virulent and transmissible variants which will cause an endless feedback loop of need for vaccines. We also mention that fact that all corona vaccines have been released with a temporary 1 year license pending submissions of more data. We are all part of a global experiment. There are now an army of 10000 people who's sole purpose it is to check up on whether normal adults are sticking to quarantine. Why not more police officers on the street to catch real criminals? Or training more ITU nurses to do something useful...2021-04-1942 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 208: Biden? Trump is not looking so bad after all. Has capitalism raised the rights of the individual above that of society?Nothing much needs to be said about President Biden and his sheer lack of activity and any kind of substance. Clearly making way for Camalla Harris to take over. The only elected official to refuse to salute the military. Good luck to you America. Trump is not looking so bad after all and he probably won the election in reality. We also examine the rights of individuals versus that of society and free speech. None of this functions without clear leadership and structure . Social media which for the first time in human history can form a global narrative within seconds...2021-03-2846 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 207: If misoginy is a hate crime is missing out misandry discriminatory and therefore illegal by omission?Misoginy is becoming a hate crime . However by omission then not including misandry (hate of men) is discriminatory and therefore illegal. In theory.Of course this simply gives women an excuse to be week and for the toxic elements to be offended and make complaints that occupy an already stretched police force. No reasonable person disputes that hate of men or women is bad. A law enabling toxicity will simply drive away good men and further fracture society. Indeed this is part of the vicious cycle of a society disintegrating with the Marxist political correctness which itself is a...2021-03-2145 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 206: Meghan Markle and Piers Morgan. Two wrongs don't make a right . Authenticity and abuse of power.This podcast is about two things: authenticity and what you do with it. Put simply not only do you have to be authentic (and we posit that is Meghan Markle's deficiency) but if you are in a position of responsibility then authenticity comes with an understanding of your duty within that role. (Piers Morgans' deficiency) Pure authenticity aka personal agenda within a position of power then becomes abuse of power. A society that encourages that aka rating figures is a confused lost one with lack of leadership.2021-03-1447 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 205: Should we be led by the science and should media choose the scientists?This is an easy answer. Science is surgically narrow in its focus because it has to be exact. Therefore it is up to the leaders of the country to ask the correct questions for answer by the the correct scientists and indeed to consult different experts on the correct questions to answer. So far we have had a tight group of technocrats with computer models running rough shod over the economy and mental and physical health of the country with self serving politicians anxious to avoid responsibility hiding behind them. Simply asking an obscure professor who is finally being given...2021-03-0749 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 204: Should the government be held accountable for acting out of fear?We discuss why more people are finding this 3rd lock-down harder to cope with than those that have come before. We also explain that acting out of fear is no excuse for a complete loss of objectivity and professionalism. How would you feel if your elderly father spent the last year of his life in a care home with no contact with his family and died with nobody by his side? Its not difficult to know the decision he would have made. Live for a year in solitary confinement at the most vulnerable stage of your life or see your...2021-02-2843 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 203: The psychology of snitching and the common attribute between social media and Meghan MarkleWe discuss why people snitch on their neighbours and of course it is all about empowerment and the ability to exert your position in the social hierarchy. The brutality with which you will do that is predicated by your own sense of inferiority and therefore chip on your shoulder once given that power over others. We also discuss social media and how it is culpable for the rising trend in depression and suicide and indeed the false global narrative of corona virus which in reality is a subtype of the common cold with a mortality in the under 70s less...2021-02-2244 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 202: How To Take The Credit For Nature While Causing HarmWe discuss Euromommo data of excess mortality and how it differs drastically between different European countries and ask the question whether the virus understands the concept of borders and passport control or whether there are other causes for the differences we see.2021-02-0750 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 201: The Consequences of lock-down. Is cure worse than the corona?There is no doubt people have been dying over the last year and that most of these deaths have been labelled as corona with a corresponding drop in other cause mortality. However in many countries excess mortality has not exceeded some previous years. Indeed some European countries have seen flat mortality curves. Additionally we know that corona deaths are not necessarily due to corona but just people dying while at the same time testing positive for corona which would explain the drop in other cause mortality ie it is being mislabelled as corona. We also know the PCR test is...2021-01-3142 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 200: How herd mentality has nothing to do with reality and the risk to America after the elections.The facts are as follows: Corona Virus has never scientifically been proven to cause any disease at all. Koch's postulates globally accepted for decades as being the pre requisite have never been fulfilled. The PCR test has never been shown to formally identify corona virus rather just a protein sequence found on it but which could equally be found elsewhere. A study in October of 1500 positive PCR tests was unable to isolate a single corona virus and instead they were all positive for Influenza A or B. The inference being that since excess mortality is not above the seasonal norm...2021-01-2345 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 199: How a narrative whether good or bad is more powerful than people or government.There are multiple reasons why there is global hysteria over a common cold virus which the CDC states has a mortality under the age of 70 less than influenza. One possible one is media hysteria and social media hysteria forming an exploding narrative. This is then the popular belief through repetition by authority figures and anything else that differs even the truth is seen as bad and potentially dangerous and needing to be suppressed. The passage of time across the centuries is littered with martyrs many of whom are now posthumously revered. The research is clear that fake news travels 6 times...2021-01-1742 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 198: Is it leadership or subjugation that is seeing us through this false positive PCR pandemic?Everyone be very afraid as your civil liberties are eroded quicker than you could have possibly imagined due to lies and society and the way of life as we know it is destroyed. Forget Brexit deals there will be no economies to worry about. Maybe thats why an extension to the Brexit deadline was never asked for because in reality it was irrelevant.The following are facts that can easily be looked up on peer reviewed journals or official government websites yet hardly any of us do as we believe the media and our trustworthy politicians who never lie. 2020-12-2443 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 197: Proof of Corona Herd immunity, Unnecessary lock-down potentially dangerous vaccines and Brexit chaos. Business as usual then !Current publicly available Office of National Statistics Data of excess mortality including Corona show where there was a late or no lock-down around the world there were high initial peaks of excess mortality but now there are only seasonally normal rises in respiratory infections and deaths. In areas where there was strict lock-down or there was geographical isolation there was a low or no initial peak and now there are larger peaks relative to the previous group showing that they are in catch up and that once the virus has passed through we are seeing herd immunity. In fact in...2020-12-1246 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 196: Google Mobility Data versus Corona Virus Mortality. Lock down makes no difference. Surprised? Not if you are a regular listenerCorona update:The rate of acceleration of corona deaths was slowing and flattening BEFORE the first lock down. Google mobility data show that as people stopped adhering to lock down and after it was lifted death rate fell exponentially opposite to the rise in mobility. In fact no human behaviour has affected the incidence of corona virus apart from a small increase when mask wearing became law in June. We now know corona is less lethal than influenza in the under 70s. Also it is not that infectious. Infections within the same household run at 50%. The rise in mortality...2020-12-0544 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 195: Corona gone since June. Why clever people do idiotic things. Lockdown and masks anyone?We review Ivor Cummins and Mike Yeadon's data presentations and interpretations which almost conclusively via observational data show that corona virus had its peak and was on the way out BEOFRE the first lockdown and is now part of the flora and fauna with almost certain herd immunity. Young people cannot be causing any kind of a peak now because young would always have been the ones least likely to isolate so would have been over represented in the first wave. Current community testing shows this. There is equal prevalence across all age ranges. Low community antibody titres simply mean...2020-11-2848 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 194: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Lockdown Deux! A bad sequel for worse reasons.The statistics are clear. Excess deaths have remained unchanged since May/June this year. The PCR test applied on an industrial scale is unreliable with an unspecified high false positive rate so the more testing of even a healthy population the more false positives masquerading as cases will be found. The apparent rise in covid mortality has exactly mirrored the reduction in mortality from other causes. Hospital bed occupancy is lower than this time last year. SAGE have had to back pedal and say that their only remit is to advise about Corona yet they stand in front of the...2020-11-2146 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 193: Lockdown new normal or new nonsenseWhy is there so much disagreement amongst the medical community about Corona Virus? The reason is that there is no clear specific risk along the lines that is being presented to us which can bear logical scrutiny. The average age of a corona virus death is 82.4 years old which is higher than the average life span i.e. the average person cannot expect to experience death from corona in their life time . Whereas misery and poverty depression stress cancer heart attacks suicide panic are guaranteed companions of lock down. Further more where is the logic of justifying lockdown because of...2020-10-3147 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 192: Humans Are Capable Of Anything Depending On The EnvironmentPoliticians continue to show a singular incompetence to manage any major situation due to media hysteria and a self serving need to stay in power resulting in abrogation of responsibility at every opportunity hiding behind the apron strings of unipolar Aspergian academics largely government funded. We are faced with further nonsensical all consuming debate on whether to apply more lockdown based on rising total infections despite infection rate hardly changing at all. Thus it is an artefact of increased testing using a PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction test with a false positive rate 10 times higher than the current true incidence and...2020-09-2130 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 191: What Do Ministers Actually Do?Today we take a break from incisive analysis using our expert backgrounds and for once in a blue moon we let rip with the help of our special guest starring with what do Ministers actually do?2020-08-2343 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 190: Working from Home: The danger of first impressions.Working from home at first glance releases stressed commuters from their daily grind both the stress and cost of it and gives parents a fighting chance to reliably pick up their kids. It may even give you a sense of autonomy especially with a micromanaging boss. It even in a lot of cases increases productivity. But the rest is all bad, in fact very bad and dangerous to the future of human society. If working from home was suitable it would have gone mainstream a long time ago. We have had the technology for years. Skype has allowed group video...2020-08-1839 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 189: Can politicians be trusted to do what is best for us or best for themselves?Politicians are democratically elected and as such have to be competent at one thing only and that is to get elected. Unfortunately competence in public office is then a matter of chance or in fact even less than that. By that we mean that whenever there is a vested interest then it is likely that that the individual in that position will act according to their vested interest and not in the best interests of those dependent on the authority of that position. Equally politicians making money after they leave public office simply because they have held public office guarantees...2020-08-0941 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 188: Abuse of PowerWe discuss how groups of animals function and how we differ to that in human society in the West.Animals function with power and hierarchy on a zero sum game. Humans in the West function through hierarchies of competence associated with different levels of authority in a non zero sum game. The way your position in the hierarchy is applied is power and this is open to abuse but hierarchies of competence will not function if abuse of power happens because they only function if the population trust and respect them. Why does abuse of power happen? Because it...2020-08-0244 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 187: Victim Role, and why political correctness is a dangerous consequenceVictim role is poorly addressed by the current experts but defines one of the core pathologies of current times. It has been touted as not taking responsibility but this is just one of the manifestations. It is the lack of taking meaningful control of your life and anything that is not meaningful and of service to developing you as a person or your life in a better way is pathological. It becomes habit and then we are controlled by our pathological control be it wanting to be looked after and becoming increasingly child like or manipulating crises, or addictions or...2020-07-2643 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 186: To Woke or not to Woke?'Woke' has been in use for years and is an adjective used to signify that you have 'woken' to social injustice especially racism. It has rapidly accelerated to assume the synonym of political correctness. It is politically incorrect not to be 'woke'.It is for instance 'woke' to wear masks and 'woke' to take the knee . But what being 'woke' really means is being subservient to the self proclaimed group identity 'woke' refers to. Group identity gives a Marxist sense of authority to any member of that group whether they have earned it or not and as such serves as...2020-07-1944 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 185: What makes someone noble? Birth, actions or intention?We discuss the concept of nobility both in terms of position in society but more importantly in terms of actions. Noble acts are those with a higher than average moral compass but it is the driver to this which determines whether the person is actually noble. For instance someone who is a binary thinker on the right sift of the Asperges spectrum is a black and white thinker and will automatically act on their opinion. This is not a function of courage . Indeed it just happens that their action is noble . It could just as easily be an immoral act...2020-07-1244 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 184: Why stop at toppling statues? What about the big boss who oversees and allows all atrocities? God?We take a critical look at why racism exists, the idea of erecting and toppling statues and the ultimate irony of Oliver Cromwell the founding father of modern parliament and democracy in the UK. People are idolised by their contemporaries using the standards of the time. It is impossible to say whether that person would have behaved the same way at a different time in a different life.It is certainly possible to topple contemporary heroes such as Kevin Spacey or Jimmy Saville as they are judged by the standards of their time. But it is highly dangerous to...2020-06-2145 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 183: Is racism a normal phenomenon? Is the expression of racism part of a badly run society?In evolutionary terms what is familiar and similar to us we like and what is unfamiliar or dissimilar we do not like. Generally this made sense because something would be familiar if it had not eaten us during our last encounter with it. We are tribal and have been hardwired to favour and relate to members of our own tribe which conferred an evolutionary advantage. Our mirror neurones in fact respond preferentially to members of our own racial background although this can be trained out.By allowing different ethnic groups to coalesce in concentrated cultural hubs all crammed together...2020-06-0752 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 182: Stress and Trauma in Pandemic Lock-downStress is a symptom associated with loss of control. We all experience it often on a daily basis. Trauma is the outcome when under severe stress either acutely or over a prolonged period of time. At least one third of the population have suffered trauma at some point in their lives. Trauma develops if the event or series of events that led to the stress is so unpleasant or terrifying that the brain automatically avoids the pain of processing it and it appears as flash backs during the day and or nightmares.However if you do not process less...2020-05-3144 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 181: The Pandemic Was Over When The Panic Started Lock Down or No Lock DownThe Pandemic was on the way out just when panic started, in the case of the UK in early April. This was approximately replicated round the world. Ttherefore response strategy was irrelevant. Lock down or no lockdown made no difference to the duraton of the virus in our communities. Sweden which did not adopt lockdown and went for herd immunity only managed to achieve one third infection rate.. London with a relatively relaxed lockdown and even more relaxed airport strategy has achieved a 20% infection rate. This means that the social and economic damage down by lockdown was completely unecessary. There...2020-05-2448 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 180: Time For Gena Miller Again? What stops someone admitting they are wrong?The government are starting to squabble amongst themselves as to how best approach this 'pandemic'. They have listened to the wrong experts, in fact it looks like they listened to the first expert who appears to have been some kind of in house on retainer expert Nial Ferguson who has a history of making rather odd projections and believed in his advice so much he broke it to have an affair with a married lady and it does not seem he was too fussy either! They did not test the validity of his projections with other experts of different disciplines...2020-05-1744 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 179: How Corona Virus is culling the population. Why lock down is a mistake.Ethnic minorities especially Black Caribbean males are at highest risk from the Corona Virus. The key here is obesity or comorbidity which is highest in Black males and in ethnic minorities with increased age. The UK has the most diverse and largest mix of these at risk groups in Europe. Corona Virus uses the ACE2 receptor to enter cells and this in increased in any form of stress whether physical or psychological including on fat cells. This is the mechanism by which Corona virus kills people who are already unwell or obese. It is also why healthy elderly are...2020-05-0949 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 178: Lesson's from the 1918 Pandemic. Economic Collapse and World War 3?The 1918 pandemic killed more people in a short period of time than all the wars of the 20th century combined. The last recorded case was in 1957. Lock down worked but only until the virus circulated the globe and came back for a second wave. Lock down was effective as it was highly fatal with no super spreaders , in other words lock down of a few weeks ensured that anyone who had it was either dead or recovered while everyone else was spared the 25% mortality rate. There followed austerity and economic collapse with the Great Recession where hundreds of thousands also...2020-05-0347 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 177: Lockdown Induced Economic Catastrophe Could Be Good For Us!This week statistics coming out of India show that seasonally adjusted mortality is less than normal. The reason is that road traffic accidents in India kill more people than coronavirus. A sobering thought which becomes even more sinister when you consider research published over the last few years that shows that economic collapse actually increasing life span. How can this be when we know that stress from lock down and economic crisis has a devastating effect on mental and physical health and will kill many times more people than coronavirus. The answer starts to show itself in the prevalence of...2020-04-2641 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 176: Why do some people cope better than others in a crisis? SoutzosWe show that dealing with a crisis and the effect a crisis has on you is directly related to your attitude and perception and in evolutionary terms those of us who have greatest difficulty dealing with every day life due to high innate anxiety can be most effective in a crisis. We also discuss how 'experts' are often the wrong people to advise on any situation involving human behaviour and certainly a group of academics in Imperial have no clue how to manage a complicated multifaceted situation where the main killer is stress. We also touch on how the media...2020-04-1939 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 175: Conspiracy? And How to Deal With Lock DownWe discuss evidence of vested interest of the large pharmas to have an illness for which every single member of society needs to have a vaccine and the fact that the Senate passed litigation indemnity for large pharmas with respect to vaccines.Lock dow is all about stress. Stress is about control. Control comes with routine and structure and planning. Quality of life at home comes with mindfulness and spoiling your partner. Boosting the immune system comes from positive thinking, humour, sense of control, exercise, good diet low in sugar and corn oil and with Vitamin D3 and Magnesium...2020-04-0945 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 174: Facts and not Emotion of CoronavirusWe have said from the beginning that a media driven frenzy of panic is not the best way to influence the nation and in turn elected politicians who then listen to academics with unidimensional models that completely neglect equally if not important factors. The fact is that now a projected drop of GDP of 7.5% caused by the lockdown is going to kill orders of magnitude more than just the coronavirus. So far world wide the corona virus has killed 58,000 people after 4 months which is effectively the flu season. This is a tiny fraction of what flu kills world wide. In...2020-04-0539 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 173: Coronavirus uncut. The Statistics and the reality so far.There are many conspiracy theories but even more panic and media hype. The reality is that coronavirus world wide still has not killed as many as normal flu in one year in the UK alone. Given effective modern medical treatment (in this case ventilators) mortality should be about the same as normal flu. Conversely death and suffering from economic collapse and social lock down will be much more. As an example following the 2008 credit crunch 5000000 people died from cancer caused by stress. Stress itself will reduce the immune system and cause depression, anxiety, suicide, heart attacks, diabetes , strokes, domestic violence...2020-03-2644 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 172: Can Coronavirus Really Make The Markets Drop 25%?The statistics of Corona virus indicate that where modern medical care is available then the mortality is no more than the common flu. But in contrast to usual flu those few seriously affected are more likely to need Intensive Care. The higher mortality rates in Italy may reflect an older population where a large proportion also are smokers as well as the Italian tradition of greeting in social groups by hugging and kissing. Or it may be an artefact of data collection where most cases of people mildly affected are simply missed. The UK has taken the far more sensible...2020-03-1343 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 171: The Power of Likeability and why Corona Virus is an excuse for authoritatianismCorona Virus is in the same family as the common cold. The clear statistics are that mortality rate is not much higher than the flu and may be lower. Those vulnerable to serious illness are the elderly and immunocompromised as with all flus and medics involved in direct care who are likely to be exposed to much higher doses. The main difference is that if it affects a patient seriously then ITU is more likely to be needed. So it is correct for the NHS to declare a level 4 emergency as thousands of extra ITU beds will be needed. Nobody...2020-03-0443 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 170: Has the Weinstein Curse been finally lifted or do we live in a world of opportunists?Harvey Weinstein has finally been convicted. We discuss the paradox of how a bountiful capitalistic permissive society rapidly becomes unequal giving rise to resentment and identity politics and ultimately to the Me Too campaign. A permissive tolerant society is not necessarily the surroundings in which humans will flourish because the main predictor of whether anyone will do anything is if they can which will lead to inequality, abuse of power and limited accountability. And if accountability is eventually applied it occurs in an atmosphere of unrest from destructive resentment amongst waring factions which will also leave countless innocents harmed as...2020-02-2643 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 169: Origins Of Sexuality And The Importance Of Being True To YourselfWe discuss some of the origins of sexuality and the importance of being true to yourself .2020-02-1244 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 168: What Makes People Do Things?Humans like all animals are hard wired to survive and where life is on the line the quickest response is reflex or instinct which short circuits rational thought. This is the Amygdala Hijack. Most of human behaviour is driven by emotion and has little logic behind it. In addition to this we are tribal and are programmed to respond to structure hierarchy and leadership and therefore often act without questioning authority figures. The more intelligent someone is the more possible it is for them to think rationally but in an emotional state no one can. Even the human quest for...2020-02-0545 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 167: LonelinessHumans like almost all living organisms are tribal. We are therefore hard wired to function in relatively small close knit groups of very similar people. Nature therefore makes us like this and it is biologically good for us both mentally and physically. Modern society is almost exclusively focused on instant gratification which by definition is the experience of the individual. Studies on longevity show that the most important factor of all in living longer and also in happiness is daily human interaction and close family. Conversely those earning more money are usually unhappy and if millionaires are asked what would...2020-01-2245 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 166: Just how traumatic is daily life?We discuss Royal Duty versus self interest. Megan is apparently suffering from anxiety and trauma. We look at just how common trauma really is an reveal some startling statistics that suggest modern daily life is not suited to humans. We are anachronisms in a society of our own making. Andy posits it is as simple as making choices. Theo explains that as humans very little of what we do and the decisions we make in daily life are under our conscious control partly because almost all decisions are emotional so that voting reflects not what people think but what they...2020-01-1544 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 165: Relationships are the 5th Need in Life. What Men and Women Want.There are 4 needs in life. Air, Food, Water, Shelter, but for a happy life you also need close relationships. This is why loneliness is toxic both mentally and physically and why the wrong relationship can be catastrophic. Women are being forced down an androgynous politically correct path just as men are being emasculated by toxic masculinity with the result that everyone is loosing their roles and the biggest casualties in terms of stress depression and self harm and women who suffer the greatest role change. Research shows that even female CEOs just want to be looked after, and equally a...2020-01-0844 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 164: New Year's Resolutions ? How To Deal With The Year Ahead Without Setting Yourself Up To Fail.Christmas time is a risky time for relationships despite it being a family focused time.We discuss New Year's resolutions and how they set you up to fail and instead what to replace them with. Failure is a natural part of life the key is insulating yourself from the effects of failure and learning from it.2020-01-0345 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 163: What is the best version of yourself?What is the best version of yourself? This seems to be a hard question and exercises the mind of philosophers, psychologists, in fact every single human with any level of self awareness. In fact self awareness is key because modern life robs you of that with politically correct expectations of equal outcome and social media driven ideals as well as the disintegrating effect of materialism. The end result is rapid consistent erosion of cultural , national and personal identity which is why depression and suicide has been increasing. The answer is that the best you can ever be is yourself. We...2019-12-3144 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 162: The Royal Family. Should they be paragons of virtue or is it human to err?It the Royal Family an anachronistic remnant of a by gone era which should have long ago been consigned to the pages of history or are they not only highly relevant but essential to our National identity and integrity? Should members of the Royal Family be paragons of virtue or is it human to err? After all Greek Gods were far from perfect but instead exhibited human frailties such as lust and jealousy , envy and revenge which everyone could related to and also learn lessons from.2019-12-2445 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 161: Why is There Blame Culture?The habit of apportioning blame is exists in a vacuum of knowledge about failure. Failure at almost anything in our goal orientated modern society is considered catastrophe therefore the immediate emotional response will be defence or attack. Religion is of course the archetypal construct with which to answer all questions and take ultimate responsibility and in the absence of this then the line of least resistance is usually blame as it takes a lot more effort to understand solve and forgive and move forward constructively. Blame is a toxic illusion of control. Religion practiced correctly is a much more benign...2019-12-1844 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 160: How Boris Johnson Won The Election.There are four main factors why Boris Johnson won.1: He is likeable (in reality a charming psychopath)2: He plays the fool (Court Jester Syndrome which makes it hard to hold him responsible as long as he does not over do it and loose credibility which he risked doing at one point)3: He has successfully walked a fine line between avoiding racism yet being acceptable to the increasingly insecure British people who seek authoritarianism.4: Every one was so bad. Corbyn had no message and Swinson has increasingly unlikeable: disagreeable, angry, swinging the politically correct banner while...2019-12-1344 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 159: Can Terrorists Be Rehabilitated ? Is religion an unstoppable force? SoutzosWe discuss terrorism in light of recent events and how to deal with terrorists. Research clearly shows that if terrorism is based on religion then people cannot be rehabilitated. If it based on acquiring a specific objective such as land or freedom then the chances are better. If it is alnost impossible to change a religious person's mind what makes religion so powerful? Is the West with increasing politically correct disintegration becoming vulnerable to being picked off and overrun by the more cohesive force of an acquisitive religion and if so what can we do about it? Are we seeing...2019-12-0343 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 158: Cannabis a misunderstood medicinal herb or a covert toxin? Is it as simple as controlling supply? SoutzosWe discuss cannabis and the evidence that it is in fact highly toxic to the brain especially to teenage brains and is a bigger cause of fatal road traffic accidents than alcohol. It also causes strokes. We discuss that its ability as a gateway drug to Class A drugs is simply the market place supplying it. In other words buying cannabis from a dealer who is likely to have an assortment of illicit drugs to tempt you with is a far less preferable than buying it from a pharmacy. In other words in many cases the opportunity needs to be...2019-11-2643 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 157: Does Flu Cause Depression? Recovery depends on you not your therapist. Emotion and WarAs the cold and flu season bursts onto the scene we discuss how it can make you depressed and how to protect yourself. Is Aspirin really an antidepressant? We discuss that the key to recovery in therapy is motivation to do so. This may include whether you like your therapist. The type of therapy is much less important. We also explain the origin of modern therapy which coincided with the rapid acceleration in post war America of materialism and the destruction of close family and community values. Finally we look at the statistical distribution of anxiety and emotion between the...2019-11-1644 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 156: Psychopaths and Narcissists have mental toughness. We discuss their secret to success. Soutzos.It is an inescapable fact of life that the higher echelons of our society are populated by the more disagreable and dysfunctional of us. Part of the reason is that these people take less responsibility for their actions and care less about the effect of their actions on others which allows them to be single minded and persistent as well as facilitate a certain clarity of thought. Over and above all that however is the expectation through innate high self esteem that they will do well. We therefore discuss sources of high self esteem and how you can manage your...2019-11-0643 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 155: The causes Of Suicide, Can Bacteria Make You Depressed? SoutzosWhy is teenage suicide sky rocketing? Is this really what modern society inspires in our young adults? Our own gut bacteria are crucial to our immune functioning and levels of inflammation in the body and can be affected by diet, stress, and light. Especially important now we are ending British Summer TIme. We discuss pressures on professional women and ask why are women becoming more depressed and anxious and having less children despite apparent greater emancipation? Or are they prisoners of political correctness?2019-10-2443 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 154: What the main killer in the Western World is and what we can do about it. Stress. Soutzos.What is the purpose of eduction? Should private schools be banned? Divorce is the biggest stress in life. Why is marrying later in life likely to last? Even if this is true is it a good thing for society? Children learn to do business deals in the play ground and its called playing. Learning to let their opponent win sometimes. What is the biggest killer in the western world and how do we fix it? It is stress. This is the overwhelming confounding variable in modern psychiatric research. Most of the time people are not clinically depressed, they are feeling...2019-10-0144 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 153: Why is politics in chaos? Extremes in the same party. Why is kindness more important than money and looks? SoutzosThe labour party is proposing to abolish private schools as well as censure the press. Extreme views like this arise in a free speach self serving democracy where structure is atomised by political correctness and without the moderating influence of structure the true extremes within people emerge and run riot. Of course the press should not have free speach. Why? Because the purpose of free speach is to be able to think in order to improve society. It is not a blunt self serving tool of lies and exaggeration to sell digital print space. The Hansard report concluded that the...2019-09-2336 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 152: Stress is a bigger killer than diet or lack of exercise. Addiction and gambling. SoutzosWe discus a study that shows different emotions physically affect the shape of the heart in different ways. Emotion and by inference perception is so powerful that if you are well exercised and eating a model healthy diet stress will still ravage your mind and body. Managing stress is therefore more important than anything else in your life with respect to improving your mental and physical health. We discuss gambling including some statistics which prove that the betting houses know that they are taking advantage of vulnerable individuals, literally raping their lives. We discuss why traditional treatments for addiction do...2019-09-2145 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 151: Is one quarter the population addicted to prescription medication ? Can you create a legacy? SoutzosThere are alot of prescription drugs being prescribed but there is no need to be panicked by the headlines. This is just sensationalist as the next thing you read is that we are on 'potentially' addictive medication in contrast to the title! Furthermore antidepressants which up to 25% of the population may be put on at some point are not addictive. This is because although they do have a short withdrawal syndrome (often mild if at all but rarely severe) this is touted by the media as being additive. The fact is there is no craving and they are not medications...2019-09-1044 minThe Reason For NowTopical Talkology: Episode 150: Is Boris being a leader or a tyrant? London is the Drug capital of Europe. Soutzos.Boris Johnson is trying to get something done in a political swamp of vested interest and disloyalty. The civil service run the UK and the only time Parliament has been tasked with making a decision it has wasted 3 years. Despite this the UK continues to run seamlessly suggesting that parliament is in fact redundant and that all that is needed is a strong leader and the civil service. At least the latter are trained for their jobs. That is far more effective than being elected to a job you are not trained to do.2019-09-0444 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 149: Happiness and Success Can Never Be Your Goals. Soutzos.What is confidence? Why do most of us lack it? Is it different to self esteem and what are determinants of self esteem? What makes us successful ? What makes as happy and how to we make ourselves happy? Certainly setting happiness as a goal is a recipe for stress and dissatisfaction. We address all these questions using the latest thinking and research on these topics.2019-08-1140 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 148: Leadership And Relationships. Soutzos2019-08-0344 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 147 - Is Trump Racist Or Does He Simply Understand That People Are Fundamentally Racist? SoutzosOfcourse Trump is racist but then so are at least two of the women in the "Squad" as one has made anti Israel comments and another anti Jewish comments. If he was not racist he could have said that if anyone does not like it America then go somewhere they do like. However his comment is not actual proof of his racism rather he is seeking to inflame the silent majority of white people who are racist. Humans are all racist as we have evolved to like that which is familiar and reject that which is different. It is reflected...2019-07-2045 minThe Reason For NowEpisode 146: Should the Press Be Allowed To Hide Behind The Politically Correct Label of Free Speach?The police have had to warn the press against publishing anything else politically sensitive which could damage the prospects of UK as a whole . Is this an outrageous challenge to our treasured entitlement to free speech? This is as a result of the British Ambassador To America resigning this week as a result of his classified report being leaked to the press. Should the press be allowed to decide what to publish under the guise of free speech? If so should anyone be held accountable for the ramifications of press profiteering from apparently saleable digital print? The mere fact that...2019-07-1344 minThe Reason For NowTopical Talkology Episode 145: Obesity Causes More Deaths From Cancer Than Smoking. SoutzosObesity is now the leading cause of cancer in the UK. The number of severely obese people outnumbers smokers by 2:1 although smoking remains more toxic than obesity per individual.We discuss whether obesity is a matter of choice or an illness and the causes of it and what can we do to tackle it. Are we just money making laboratory rats for the large processed food multinationals who feed our sugar addiction like drug pushers supply drugs? Listen and find out!2019-07-0544 min