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On Witch Hunts
Help me, here. We need a new term. Witch hunt has an entirely negative connotation, and this should not be. Genuine witches should be hunted, as doubtless all agree. Witches,…
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Road Rage: Paper Says Living Near Road Causes Dementia
Dust is thrilling researchers these days. Dust, or the more scientific sounding PM2.5, is the next greatest struggle after global warming. We've already seen attempts to prove dust, as measured…
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“Doctors” Suggest Hacking Up Live Patients For Their Organs, Then Killing Them
The paper in the oh-so-prestigious New England Journal of Medicine is "Voluntary Euthanasia -- Implications for Organ Donation" by Ian M. Ball, Robert Sibbald, and Robert D. Truog, a couple…
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Proof Cause Is In The Mind And Not In The Data
Pick something that happened. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as it happened. Something caused this thing to happen; which is to say, something actual turned the potential (of…
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Summary Against Modern Thought: How God Will Be Seen
Previous post. Some good news this week! HOW GOD MAY BE SEEN IN HIS ESSENCE 1 Since it is impossible for a natural desire to be incapable of fulfillment, and…
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Insanity & Doom Update LIX
Item Student editor who tweeted that 'women don't have penises' is fired from university journal in transgender row A student editor at a top university has been fired in a…
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Outside, It’s Gaia 2.0!
James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, via Wikipedia, is that "living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and…
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Insanity & Doom Update LVIII — Special Midweek Doom
There is more Doom that we can shake a holy-water-doused crucifix at. Maybe we should have both Saturdays and Wednesdays Doom devoted. Item How three scholars gulled academic journals to…