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The Moral Case Against Designer Babies

"Should prospective parents seek information about gene variants that increase the risk their children will develop diseases as adults? Should physicians provide that information?" So asks Ronald Bailey, only just…

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Another Academic Calls For Shorter People To Battle Global Warming

Academic philosopher S Matthew Liao (NYU) and pals are coming to get you. They want to monkey with your genes, kill your unwanted, inject growth-stunting hormones into your womb, poison…

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Genetic Engineering To Create New Super Moral Race: Savulescu Strikes Again

On the road, so here is a classic post from not too long ago. The appalling Julian Savulescu1 is back, this time staining the pages of the British edition of…

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Woman To Marry Fairground Ride. A New Sexual ‘Orientation’?

I want you to tell me exactly why Amy Wolfe, a 33-year-old "US church organist", can't marry her favorite roller coaster. You heard me. Roller coaster---an "80ft gondola ride." Exactly,…

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Monday Mail

Inbox I'm several hundred emails behind. This weekend, always the slowest of the year, allowed me to catch up some. I appreciate very much all the missives and apologize if…

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The Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage, Part IV (Final)

Part III Question 5 I have heard you say that homosexuals do not choose their "orientation" and that everybody has a right to be happy and thus has the right…

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Who Is A Mother When Same-Sex “Marriage” Arrives?

A headline in the 2 January 2013 The Telegraph ran: First baby born in France in 2013 has two mothers The story informs us the birth mother is named Maude,…

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We Are All Eugenicists Now: New Test Identifies 3,500 Genetic “Faults” In Fetuses — Update

See the crucial update below. I was assured, several times, that my second son was to be my first daughter. The doctors who told me this had performed certain tests,…

Michael Dowd on How The Enlightenment Led To Contraception (And Other Forms of Anti-Natal Behavior)December 12, 2024
My instant thought: The Dark Age, our age, began with the Enlightenment; an age that denies Truth and God, loving…
Phil R on Science Model Told To Say Masks Work Discovers Masks WorkDecember 11, 2024
Assuming there are no non-binary or transgender issues with the white people in the diagram, at least they are approximately…
McChuck on Science Model Told To Say Masks Work Discovers Masks WorkDecember 11, 2024
Well stated, sir. The map is never the territory. Especially when charted out by liars.
Hagfish Bagpipe on Science Model Told To Say Masks Work Discovers Masks WorkDecember 11, 2024
Briggs: "What we see here [in the graphic] is stanky noxious visible disease-ridden breath, containing particles of the very coronadoom…
McChuck on In Which Feynman Makes A Mistake: Negative Probabilities (Used In AI, QM, Finance)December 11, 2024
The main problem with negative probabilities is that the probability of anything is DEFINED as the range between and inclusive…