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David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...maladies. It is impious, says the modern European superstition, to put a period to our own life and thereby rebel against our Creator. The result of this pernicious influence of superstition on common sense is that dams don't get built, smallpox doesn't get eradicated, and those for whom it is rational to do so do not commit suicide. (Women in particular, he remarks, are...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding dyslexia

...malady’ was a cause for poor literacy and contributed to unemployment and criminal behaviour, and urging that ‘the dyslexia industry was killed off’ (BBC News, 2009). Despite the Rose Report’s conceptual clarification, the debate over dyslexia continued due to ongoing research into other neurodiverse conditions. A 2014 study by Elliott and Grigorenko argued that...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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