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Tag Archives: Personality types
Police brutality 2
What sort of person wants to become a police officer?
The nature of the job makes it prone to attract “bad eggs.”
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False prophecy and cancer
Friday, December 8, 2017
In doing research for a different post, I just now got a big surprise, from this Wikipedia article:
Type A and Type B personality theory
Many years ago, I recognized that individuals I regard as false prophets are unusually prone to die of cancer. I could provide a long list, but just now there’s no need. I developed a theory of an “irritable personality,” and supposed such a personality might rise from the same genetic bases as a tendency toward cancer.
From this article, it appears that I was right. Although it doesn’t give any detailed description of what might constitute a cancer-prone personality, it sets forth that, at least in some persons, the two are definitely linked.
Related: False prophecy in the news
Final note: Not all trolls are false prophets, but all false prophets are trolls.