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Compulsory Moral Bioenhancement Should Be Covert Says Academic Who Says Ticks Should Be Genetically Modified To Stop You Eating Meat

My heart soared like a hawk by the hundreds of supportive comments I got on Twitter from last week's story about two academics who want government to genetically modify ticks…

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Academic: Genetically Engineer Shorter People To Battle “Climate Change”

This classic post originally ran 25 July 2014. I have corrected the text where my enemies inserted errors. The original title said "global warming", as it used to be known,…

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Women ‘Genetically Programmed To Have Affairs’?

Thing about evolutionary psychologists is that after giving sciency sounding names to commonplace events, they believe they have discovered something new. Happens with wild abandon in the peer-reviewed paper "The…

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The Genetic Fallacy: He Works For An Oil Company!

I'm on the road for the next several days and won't always have access to the Internet. So I'm reposting a series of classic fallacies. Regular service to resume early…

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On The Role Of Genetics In Politics

This paper is worth taking extra time to disassemble: "genopolitics" is part of a growing trend in the academy. The Mating Game If you can pass on your political "orientation"…

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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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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,…

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Science Explains Belief In God Through Genetics

Let's look at "Life's Extremes: Atheists vs. Believers", a piece on Live Science (the home of unexpurgated university press releases; hat tip to HotAir). The article is itself slight---it begins…

Francois Stallbom on On That “Bombshell German Study” That “Exposes the PCR Test Fraud That Locked Down the World”November 22, 2025
Yes Cary, mud and pineapples tested positive as well! What a sham.
Academics Demand Mandatory Chemical Moral Bioenhancement To Make You More Compliant To Coronadoom Restrictions – William M. Briggs on A Pill To Eliminate Racism? What’ll Science Think Of Next!November 21, 2025
[…] academics want to feed us propranolol to reduce racism. The strangest is a short Chinaman who wants to make…
Briggs on Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong WayNovember 21, 2025
Uncle Mike, By a strange coincidence, you hit upon the very example I used in the class after Thanksgiving. Pr("loaded"…
Uncle Mike on Class 72: Most Claims Of “Controlled For” Are Wrong: The Wrong WayNovember 21, 2025
What if you rolled a six-sided die 60 times and scored a 10 for each side (1-10, 2-10, 3-10, 4-10,…
Ronald Conneely on Black Women Can’t Do Physics As Well As White Men, Says ResearcherNovember 20, 2025
Great analysis as usual but be careful, you are bordering on that dreded (R----t) area. Would hate to lose your…