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Insanity & Doom Update V
Item & Prediction Why this winter could turn out to be a surprisingly sexy Oscar season It's not that Call Me By Your Name is especially explicit (though the famous…
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The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski
A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show…
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Let’s Eliminate Suffering (And Those Who Suffer)
Stream: Let's Eliminate Suffering (And Those Who Suffer) The news is "Iceland Has Nearly Eliminated Down Syndrome--Through Abortion". ...Iceland -- through the use of abortion -- apparently is on the…
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DDP: Quack Cures For What Doesn’t Ail Us, Part I
I'm at the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting in No-History City, Louisiana. Here's Part I of (an earlier draft of) the speech I gave Saturday. Consider donating $1 for every…
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Insanity & Doom Update
We used to call these "This Week In Doom", but except for our Summa Contra Gentiles series, I cannot stick to a schedule. Item "California Lesbian Couple Chemically Alter Their…
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Austin Ruse’s ‘Fake Science: Exposing the Left’s Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data’
Austin Ruse kindly sent me a copy of his new Fake Science: Exposing the Left's Skewed Statistics, Fuzzy Facts, and Dodgy Data, a book readers of this blog will take…
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Stream: March For Science Descending Into Farce
Apologies for the re-send. Certain events intervened and I posted the original too early. The Stream article is now live. March For Science Descending Into Farce: Intersectionality and Diversity edition.…
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Clean Razors For Women Who Cut Themselves? What Happened to First Do No Harm?
Physicians long ago abandoned the Hippocratic Oath, for at least the reason that its call for physicians not to cause harm went against the modern acceptance, and even boasting, of…