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You’re A LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM-aphobe!
I admit it. I am afraid of the sort of person who boasts of being a card-carrying LGBTTQQFAGPBDSM member. I would not want to be in a room alone with…
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Vatican To Have One-Day “Climate Change” Summit. Why Wasn’t I Invited?
Here's the word from the America: The National Catholic Review: The Vatican is set to host a major conference on climate change this month that will feature leading researchers on…
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The Miracles-Don’t-Exist-So-Miracles-Don’t-Exist Argument
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=69&v=0d4FHHf00pY Say something nice: the Miracles-Don't-Exist-So-Miracles-Don't-Exist argument is conditionally true. If miracles are impossible, miracles, it follows logically, don't happen. No escaping the iron cladedness of that (you heard me:…
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Question Of The Week: Will Religions Try to Convert Superintelligent AI? No
The ever hopeful transhumanist-but-still-human Zoltan Istvan is back asking "When Superintelligent AI Arrives, Will Religions Try to Convert It?" The answer is a qualified no. The qualification? There won't be…
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Climate Wars At The University of Delaware: Guest Post by Jan H. Blits
Jan H. Blits is a professor in the University Honors Program at the University of Delaware, is the winner of the 2011 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award. May a…
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Science Officially Runs Out Of Things To Study
The headline in the peer-reviewed Physiology & Behavior paper by Soojin Park and Weon-Sun Shin says it all: "Differences in eating behaviors and masticatory performances by gender and obesity status".…
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This Week In Doom: A Riotously Good Time
Because this week has been especially doom-laden, we're pushing up our bulletin a full day. Indeed, conditions were so rank these past seven days that they almost qualify to be…
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Be A Man
Because of this Special Report, we interrupt our regularly scheduled tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. It returns next week. The Archdiocese of New York held its first ever men's conference…
