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Doug Axe
Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
David Berlinski
Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
Guillermo Gonzalez at Garden of the Gods, July 2022
Guillermo Gonzalez
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer in 2021
David Klinghoffer
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Carl Linnaeus
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Ethics

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Peter Biles
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August 31, 2023
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Bioethics
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Can Everything Be Reduced to Data?

Peter Biles
August 31, 2023
Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind
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"Dataism is at odds with human flourishing. It’s difficult to find a Renaissance moment in this ruinous reductionism." Read More ›
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Andrew McDiarmid
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August 31, 2023
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Darwin and the Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection

Andrew McDiarmid
August 31, 2023
Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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The motivation for the brain collection was to document how some people were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than others. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 29, 2023
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Bioethics
Medicine
Metascience
Scientific Freedom
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Shift from “Evidence-Based” to “Science-Based” Medicine Would Stifle Debate

Wesley J. Smith
August 29, 2023
Bioethics, Medicine, Metascience, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness
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Trust must be earned, not imposed. Information gatekeepers can be wrong. The danger of censorship in the name of “science” is growing. Read More ›
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David Klinghoffer
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August 22, 2023
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Evolution
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“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists

David Klinghoffer
August 22, 2023
Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy
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It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend. Read More ›
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John G. West
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August 18, 2023
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Bioethics
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Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian 

John G. West
August 18, 2023
Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology
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Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Read More ›
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Peter Biles
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August 16, 2023
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Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
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Neuroscience & Mind
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Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

Peter Biles
August 16, 2023
Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind
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The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›
Trinity Detonation
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 16, 2023
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Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
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For Science and Free Speech, Lessons from Oppenheimer

Wesley J. Smith
August 16, 2023
Bioethics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom
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Like all great art, the movie evokes reactions in the viewer beyond what the filmmaker might have intended. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 15, 2023
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CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths

Wesley J. Smith
August 15, 2023
Bioethics, Medicine
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You can call a dung beetle a butterfly, but it remains a dung beetle. The term suicide defines what is done, not why. Read More ›
George Orwell
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Denyse O’Leary
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August 14, 2023
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Scientific Freedom
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Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

Denyse O’Leary
August 14, 2023
Bioethics, Scientific Freedom
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The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
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August 11, 2023
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Environmentalist Misanthropy: Humans Are Terminal Cancer

Wesley J. Smith
August 11, 2023
Bioethics, Medicine
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Lest readers dismiss the author and the interviewer as fringe, anti-humanism has become a hallmark of environmentalism. Read More ›

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