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Truth matters

ByDoug Anderson Crime & Punishment, Media, Communications, Money

Coping in a post-truth world

Doug Anderson

Nov 08, 2025

Like all of you I get dozens of scam phone calls and emails every day. Very annoying. But, like most of you, I’m pretty good at figuring out what’s real and what’s not. Most of them are phishing for information that they can use later to go after your bank account, max out your credit cards or sell on the dark web.

But we’re not the target of these scams. They’re aimed at the handful of people who for one reason or another are vulnerable – people who aren’t careful, people who are gullible or perhaps the person who’s just had a bad day and isn’t thinking straight. Such people are generally the most financially vulnerable and least able to afford being scammed. In 2021 it was estimated that such scams raked in $50 Billion in the United States. That’s … More

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Crime and Punishment

ByDoug Anderson Crime & Punishment, Government Policy, Lateral Thinking, Paradigm Shift

A Paradigm Shift Approach to Recidivism

Doug Anderson

Apr 26, 2025

Link to same article on Substack

I’m a lateral thinker – an outside the box thinker. The box in this case is conventional or incremental thinking. True lateral thinkers are born that way and are fairly rare, but you can look through history and some stand out – Benjamin Franklin for sure and I would include Winston Churchill as well. The mobilization of a flotilla of small boats to evacuate troops from Dunkirk in the early part of World War II was an act of a lateral thinker while most people were wringing their hands and contemplating surrender.

Conventional thinkers look at the status quo and think about incremental changes whereas a lateral thinker looks at the current situation, looks at where he needs to go and figures out a path to get there. Lateral Thinking is both a … More