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Image: "An Elderly Couple," by Jan Gossaert [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Promoting “Rational” Suicide by the Elderly

September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I used to call the annual event “Invisible Suicide Prevention Day” because it is so often ignored in major media. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Don DeBold, via Flickr (cropped).

Rigorous Inquiry and Ruffled Feathers

The NCSE is troubled, but this just sounds like solid science. I’m all for critical analysis of data, evaluating conclusions, and rigorous scientific inquiry. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Robert Scoble, via Flickr (cropped). 

Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology

“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.” Read More ›
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Suppressing Science at Brown University

Career anxiety is exactly how heterodox thought is policed and stamped out in the academic world. Read More ›
Will Universities Embrace Freedom, or Censor Ideas?
Photo: Sculpture of Wilfrid Laurier, campus of Wilfrid Laurier University, by Laurel L. Russwurm [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Free Speech or “Better Speech”?

What Denyse O’Leary calls “well-intentioned nonsense” will protect no one that needs protecting. Read More ›
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Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›
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Photo: Charles Lyell, by John & Charles Watkins [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin, Wallace, Lyell — A Dispute at the Origins of Evolutionary Theory

Contrary to popular and media myths, Darwin’s view of evolution faced from its beginning opposition and criticism from scientists that have never gone away. Read More ›
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Photo: On his visit to South Africa, Brian Miller took the opportunity to pet a friendly cheetah.

Brian Miller Pets a Cheetah, an Icon of Intelligent Design

For your Labor Day enjoyment, Brian submits this photo of himself with Annabelle. Read More ›
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Image: Richard Weikart, via C-SPAN (screen shot).

Weikart on C-SPAN: Jefferson, Russell, Hitler, Pianka, and More

Kudos to interviewer Peter Slen who is utterly unreadable as to his own attitudes on any on this. Read More ›
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Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger

“The real worry,” Dembski says, “isn’t that we’ll raise machines to our level, but that we’ll lower humanity to the level of machines.” Read More ›

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