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Stream: #Creatorgate. Scientists Say ‘The Creator’ Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape.

Today's post is at the Stream: #Creatorgate: Scientists Say 'The Creator' Designed The Human Hand, Biologists Go Ape. Who are the most dogmatic, inflexible, reactionary, unforgiving, monomaniacal set of people…

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Religious Leaders File Brief To Support Abortion

Here's the story: "Nearly 1,300 Religious Leaders Sign Historic Brief Urging Supreme Court to Preserve a Woman's Right to [Kill Their Unborn]". Why are women so special they get the…

Culture Philosophy

Direct Democracy Is Not To Be Desired

That people's first reaction to questioning democracy is anger ought to tell you a lot. This fellow @Voxday was on Twitter advocating direct over representative democracy. I made the point…

Culture Fun

First Annual Political Correctness Day: Date TBA

There is nothing more important than Tolerance, Diversity, and Multiculturalism! So we are told. Yet those who tout these traits lie. This is easy to prove. Go to any person…

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What’s The Worst Moment in US History?

https://twitter.com/mattstat/status/704700795166584832 If you can't read the tweet, it is a poll. It asks Worst Moment in US History with selections (the percents of 42 votes, current as of posting time):…

Culture Philosophy

Is Truth And Evidence In Medicine Fascist? Update: Yes.

See what you think of this peer-reviewed paper by Dave Holmes in the International Journal of Evidence Based Healthcare called "Deconstructing the evidence-based discourse in health sciences: truth, power and…

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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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Health Insurance Isn’t Health Care

We talked this to death in the run up to Obamacare, but somehow, nobody knows how, the words of wisdom emanating from this site did not find purchase. I was…

James on Lancet Discovers Public Health Is PoliticsMarch 16, 2026
Why is a BRITISH journal (The Lancet) complaining about the US medical establishment? And given the current political establishment in…
bruce g charlton on Lancet Discovers Public Health Is PoliticsMarch 16, 2026
As I have been saying for a couple of decades; science is dead (as a social institution) - but *medical*…
JR Ewing on Lancet Discovers Public Health Is PoliticsMarch 16, 2026
"For these crimes, our rulers paid no price. Not directly." ----------------------- It depresses me when I think about it, so…
NLR on On Not ReadingMarch 15, 2026
quote from Idonotreadcomments: "everything men create is derivative of what came before us. There are no stories that have not…
Rudolph Harrier on On Not ReadingMarch 14, 2026
Idonotreadcomments: you are making the wrong observation from bookstores. Certainly that sort of smut is plentiful in bookstores, and this…