https://mekineer.com/ 2026-04-23T16:07:28+00:00 https://mekineer.com/ https://mekineer.com/ttps://mekineer.com/lib/tpl/adoradark/images/favicon.ico text/html 2025-02-28T20:39:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/conflict-of-interest Conflict of Interest (COI) Because of COI, searching for the truth is difficult business. Studies that study COI Relationship between Funding Source and Conclusion among Nutrition-Related Scientific Articles “The main finding of this study is that scientific articles about commonly consumed beverages funded entirely by industry were approximately four to eight times more likely to be favorable to the financial interests of the sponsors than articles without industry-related funding. O… text/html 2023-12-21T04:33:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/economic-inequality this article should probably be divided into two articles Economic Inequality I often have thought that it is morally objectionable to hire servants to do work you would normally do for yourself. There is also danger in the effect it will have on your soul. It will lead you to feel a sense of entitlement. From studies by Paul Piff: text/html 2025-01-05T07:20:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/epidemiology The motive for this article is to expose the lack of consideration for alternate accounts on the severity or progression of the COVID pandemic, to combat mass groupthink that has consistently plagued society throughout history. For example, pollution is responsible for the deaths of more people than COVID will ever kill, but humanity will not choose to slow manufacturing and try to be satisfied with less money, war, or empirialism that would eventually save billions of people. There is a comple… text/html 2023-12-21T04:33:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/evolution Domestication of Humanity <https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/humans-domesticated-dogs-and-cows-we-may-have-also-domesticated-ourselves> “Scientists have also found evidence for self-domestication in human skeletal remains. Based on what’s happened to animal domesticates, it’s predicted that skulls should have become smaller and more feminine looking (in both sexes) with reduced brow ridges. Indeed, that’s what a 2014 Current Anthropology paper found, which measured Homo sapiens sku… text/html 2023-12-21T04:33:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/friendships Friendships Cultural Differences <https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2015-04/01/content_19834344_3.htm> “ Chinese people have different meanings to define friends. Just hanging out together time to time is not friendship. Friendship means lifelong friends who feel deeply obligated to give each other whatever help might seem required. Americans always call people they meet friends, so the definition of friends is general and different. There are work friends, playing friends, school friends… text/html 2024-04-06T21:09:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/military-spending Diverting Military Spending to Humanitarian Efforts If an increasing amount of money being spent on military, was channeled into humanitarian efforts, then hopefully a military would eventually not be needed. The point is to make friends not enemies. Instead of dropping bombs, you could send aid to those suffering from war. text/html 2023-12-21T04:33:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/online-universities Online Universities Online courses are of different types German marketing professor Andreas Kaplan has proposed a classification scheme that places online distance courses into four distinct groups: MOOCs (massive open online courses): unlimited in the number of participants, enabling them to learn asynchronously at their own pace. text/html 2023-12-21T04:33:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/self-governance Self Governance: The Corruption of Society and Possible Solutions Sociology of Companies The model for stock corporations, is to make profit. Which is not inherently wrong. However, the model is flawed because personal involvement in the company is not a requirement to be a stockholder. With the lack of personal involvement, with the lack of being informed, it is too easy for investors to choose to invest only in corporations that produce the greatest return on investment. In other wor… text/html 2023-12-21T04:33:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/transcendental-meditation Transcendental Meditation Review of Systematic Reviews on Transcendental Meditation The following studies are funded by organizations with financial interest, and/or are biased or of poor quality: This study was financed in part by Howard Settle <https://academic.oup.com/ajh/article/21/3/310/102286> This study is published by the for profit organization of TM, Maharishi University of Management: text/html 2024-12-11T02:22:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mekineer.com/sociology/world-population Population Growth Rate [Population Growth Rate] Nicxjo - United Nations, CC BY 3.0 Depopulation The Coming Global Depopulation by Centre for Independent Studies on YouTube. How Koreans Feel About Birth Rate Crisis by Asian Boss on YouTube. Over 100 Million Leftover Women in China: 38-Year-Old Master’s Grad Opts for Rural Old Bachelor? by China Observer on YouTube. Recession / deflation pressure from population decline <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_consequences_of_popula…