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“Follow the Science”? Free Webinar, May 16, on Scientism and Society

In discussions of the virus, you probably have noticed the prominent use of strangely religious-sounding pleas — “Follow the science!” “Listen to the scientists!” Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks: Coronavirus and the “Primacy of Information”

This is the kind of insight that halts you in your tracks: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.” Read More ›
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Herd Immunity, Not Herd Mentality

The “field of public health” is complicit in the worst episode of scientific malfeasance in the 21st century. Read More ›
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Coronavirus Response: Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Design in Nature and Medical Science

One might object that if our immune system were intelligently designed, it would be utterly immune to all pathogens. Read More ›
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Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›
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The Jack Kevorkian Plague

The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: Our Remarkable Healing Processes and the Coronavirus Infection

There are several ways to fight this pandemic besides social isolation, wearing masks, and proper hand-washing. Read More ›
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Coronavirus: Biologist Jonathan Wells Explains

Does modern evolutionary theory guide medicine’s response to COVID-19? Not when you consider that most of the major treatments being used and pursued actually preceded Darwin. Read More ›
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Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›

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