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Here Comes The Gene-Editing Research In Human Embryos
The mechanistic view of man and the universe has consequences, the most important of which is that man is seen as a machine. Well, he must be if everything is…
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Gallup On Satisfaction With Gay “Rights”, The Remnant, & The Episcopalian Grounding
Galloping to our doom Surveys of public attitudes in democracies are interesting. When pollsters aren't lying (more on this another day), polls are crude snapshots of the adult "general public's"…
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The Real Anti-Science Crowd
People are starting to notice that not all is well in Science. This is happening not only among scientists themselves, not only among Realists like the readers of this blog,…
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Stream: Political Scientists Didn’t See Trump Coming. What Went Wrong?
Today's terrific post is at The Stream. The Bad Science Behind Trump's Opposition. It's the best post. The best. It just is. I don't know. I have friends in journalism.…
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I Self-Identify As The Yak King
Person I know was attending recently a mandatory training session at a well known university. Session was led by trainers not themselves employees of the university, folks who self-identified as…
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Climate Witch Hunt Now Official: Think Tank Subpoenaed
We've already seen the start of this, but it was only penknife rattling, a group of avaricious lawyers pushing their (wrong) version of climate physics. Yet the mix of greed…
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When Colleges Divest, Who Wins? Hint: Not The Colleges
I don't normally do this, but it's a special occasions. Here's a press release from the National Association of Scholars announcing the release of their report Inside Divestment: The Illiberal…
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Science Shows How Not To Get Killed By A Cow
"Murderous cattle are an understudied phenomenon, say veterinarian Angharad Fraser-Williams and other researchers at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom." You bet they're understudied. When's the last time…
