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Is It Moral To Use Embryonic Stem Cells In Cancer Therapy?

From an anonymous reader comes this question: Situation: Doctor is referring me to an oncologist because I may have Myeloma. Note that I have not yet gone for additional screening.…

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Briggs Is Available To Speak. Update

You've seen the videos...You've read the papers...You know the blog...Now hire the man! For a limited time only---All men are mortal, Briggs is a man, etc.---W. M. Briggs is available…

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I Am In Awe Of What Passes For Science

I'm traveling to the Heartland Climate Conference today. Special speakers dinner and pep talk later, and, rumor has it, cigars and whiskey. I started that rumor, and I have cigars,…

Philosophy

Are We Special? New Thoughts about the Anthropic Principle — Guest Post by Bob Kurland

Editor's note This post first appeared at Kurland's home site. My criticisms follow. "Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix.…

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Scientists Pretend They Can Answer Why Some Are More Religious

One thing that nearly always accompanies scientism is historical cluelessness. When somebody adopts the Way Of Science, they fall spell to the idea that only that which is most recent…

Culture

This Week In Doom: A Mighty, Doom-Laden Seven Days

Thank You Sir, I'll Have Another Homosexual Activists Tell Kim Davis: 'We Will Kidnap Your Husband, Tie Him Up And Force Him To Watch Us Raping You. We Will Burn…

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Space’s 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science

Reader Ken pointed us to Space.com's click-me-click-me! article "The 10 Mistakes People Make When Arguing Science". Since everybody loves numbered lists, I'll duplicate their efforts here, using their mistakes. Isn't…

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Heartland Climate Conference: Day 1. Everybody Gets Time Series Wrong

As predicted, there were cigars. But I missed them. The smoking party left without me while I listed to Ireland's version of the Mr Wizard brothers. A science experiment involving…

Paul Murphy on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
For even more fun, try the antonyms - I started with "apathy" and "callousness" - ended up laughing loud enough…
Brian (bulaoren) on Trends In Wokeness & Girlbossery In ScienceNovember 14, 2024
I feel you, man!
Briggs on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 14, 2024
Hagfish, Nose ring?
Hagfish Bagpipe on Prominent Academic Asks: When And How Did Statistics Lose Its Way? November 13, 2024
Wonderful graphic. That's what I would say if the bloody bouncer dropped the velvet rope and let me enter Club…
C-Marie on The Decline Of Western Christianity: Gradually Then SuddenlyNovember 13, 2024
There has always been "the church system of man" within the Catholic Church. Do read Matthew 24: 4-8 " 4…