Well, all my knowledge of hypnosis comes from an episode of Bull. Repetition is a powerful thing, among other things it indicates success or consensus if one approaches it from an evolutionary psychology perspective. What I said a long time ago about how cryptography is incremental, that easier to cryptanalyze provable ciphers would have less papers, and that more complex ciphers would have more papers, it isn't an incredible observation. But noting the observation would reduce the impact that the deluge of papers on Simon and Speck would have (if it was simple to cryptanalyze there'd be only two or three papers on each). There was also a lot of repetition in the recent efforts to remove RC4 and Triple DES. (nevermind the efforts to remove Saddam) RC4 in particular had someone use it for a file encryption system for deniability? Spotlight was a movie produced with assistance from First Look. There was a scene that extremely disturbed me, more than all the child molestation. Well, two scenes to be exact. The first scene was the new editor ordering the journalists to investigate a case. The second scene was that the paper did write about child molestation allegations in the past, but they put it into the metro section. How easily are people manipulated? These journalists went on to win prizes for their reporting, so clearly they are not responsible for their own success. These are exceptional allegations, the metro article was about a dozen alleged cases? Then it turned out to be hundreds of children? The part that really disturbed me is that no one reflected on this. This is a thing that happened. The journalists unwittingly allowed it to occur. Cardinal Law wittingly allowed it to occur. The truth is out there. It is not hard to find. Actually, all the journalists, with their intelligence contacts... they have to be itching to ask one question. How could so many people in the intelligence community be okay with the popular outrage from Snowden? How do they rationalize it? Well. I don't know, but I think they are naive enough to ignore past misdeeds, and they get told various things. Like how it was Clapper's duty to lie to Congress (!) because no comment or this should be in a closed hearing would be too suspicious. How could it be that they think what they are doing is legal, but we think that hiding information from the public is suspicious and sign of illegality? Maybe the government does incidental collection with disk images and wiretaps on an alarming scale. Maybe... maybe.... You are being manipulated. Only you can produce your freedom.