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Darwinism Would Fare Poorly Against Pandemics

When combatting disease-causing pathogens, we don’t use the idea that Darwinian evolution is of unlimited creativity. Just the opposite! Read More ›
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Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine

It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers. Read More ›
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What Scientists Know

Our scientific elites insist that the “scientific consensus” be accepted without question. Read More ›
Treatment of patients in the ICU aboard USNS Comfort in New York, New York

The COVID Crisis and Our Healthcare System

To my knowledge, not a single person in the U.S. has died of COVID due to lack of capacity of the healthcare system. Read More ›
Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas Weighs in on the Coronavirus and Public Policy

Scientists should have “stayed in their lane,” giving policymakers the information that science can provide about a potential pandemic, and left the political calculations alone. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer: Teach the (Coronavirus) Controversy

Students and Presidents make better decisions when they are exposed to competing views. Read More ›
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COVID-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

Dr. Egnor draws upon Aristotle to argue that mutations and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design. Read More ›

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