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This post originally appeared on the Popanth blog (no longer in operation) in 2014. A greatly expanded version of this article appears in my book Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour, where I delve more deeply into the archaeological and…
On a daily basis, I receive literally dozens of emails from ‘academic’ publishers and conferences inviting me to submit a paper or speak at their event (for a large fee, of course). For the most part, these invitations are laughably dodgy. However, an email I received in 2016…

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