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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 7, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, borders, calculus, Congress, coronavirus, COVID-19, economics, elderly, epidemiology, euthanasia, experts, health, neurosurgeon, Politics, President, probabilities, public policy, scientists, social distancing, Thomas Aquinas, triage}

Balancing Lives, Economics, and Public Policy in This Plague

_{Michael Egnor
April 7, 2020

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine, Psychology, Sociology

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Our political policy makers (the President, Congress and the Senate, governors, etc.) should make their calculus transparent. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Psychology
Science Education
Tagged
, __edited, books, college, critical thinking, Denis Noble, education, engineers, Jay Labov, Khan Academy, Modern Synthesis, Nature (journal), physicians, Royal Society, scientists, Stanford University, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

Science Education and the Growth Mindset

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 6, 2020

Psychology, Science Education

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Growth mindset is an idea popularized by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, __edited, anthropologists, Darwinism, humanities, IQ testing, John West, scientific racism}

Listen: John West on Scientific Racism and the Cachet of Darwinism in the Humanities

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2019

Evolution, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology

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On race, scientists followed Darwin’s thinking until religious and civil rights leaders, not other scientists, ultimately shamed them out of it. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
August 19, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, brain, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Human Zoos, Kenneth Miller, mental illness, metaphysical naturalism, methodological naturalism, National Institutes of Health, North American Teilhard Society, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, psychiatry, Theodosius Dobzhansky}

What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?

_{Robert Shedinger
August 19, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Psychology

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We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, Brights, cosmos, David Klinghoffer, eugenics, Ezekiel, Gaia, hate, human body, human life, human mind, Isaiah, John Milton, mankind, misanthropy, New Atheists, Paradise Lost, pride, Richard Dawkins, Sigmund Freud}

Milton and the Psychology of Materialism

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2019

Biochemistry, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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It is basically the denial of human exceptionalism. That is, it is hatred of man, in practically every way imaginable. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 23, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, Africa, apes, atheism, BBC, birth control, bonobos, chimpanzees, Christians, church, communion, Darwinism, Easter, Eucharist, evolution, genetic fallacy, great apes, humans, Jane Goodall, jesus, last common ancestor, Mass, materialists, meals, monkeys, neocortex, On the Origin of Species, religion, savannah}

How Did Religion “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
April 23, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 10, 2019

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, adaptation, babies, behavior, college students, Darwinian biology, evolution, fairy tales, football, junk science, methodology, MIT, Neanderthals, PZ Myers, satire}

Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology

_{Michael Egnor
April 10, 2019

Biochemistry, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Psychology

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Darwinian fairy tales about prehistoric Neanderthal proclivities and modern psychology are obvious junk science. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
March 28, 2019

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Psychology
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, Joseph Stalin, King’s College London, Lysenkoism, medicine, Oxford University, Trofim Lysenko}

To Intimidate Scientists, No Stalin Is Required

_{Sarah Chaffee
March 28, 2019

Biology, Medicine, Psychology, Scientific Freedom

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Many scientists face abuse and threats from an outraged minority who want there to be a biological basis for chronic fatigue syndrome. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
September 18, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Linguistics
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, animals, beauty, brain, C.S. Lewis, chimpanzees, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Premack, emotions, Jane Goodall, love, mastodons, nerve cells, perception, poetry, rational thought, soul, University of Pennsylvania, wetware}

Beyond Adaptation: The Human Brain Is Something New

_{Ann Gauger
September 18, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology, Linguistics, Psychology

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Our brains have vastly more ability than is needed for survival, most notably the capacity for language and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 11, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, alt-right, anti-Semitism, Darwinian theory, Europeans, From Darwin to Hitler, history, inequality, James Watson, Jews, Kevin MacDonald, Nazism, neo-Nazism, Nobel Prize, Racism, Richard Spencer, Steven Pinker}

Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism

_{Richard Weikart
July 11, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology

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Kevin MacDonald is trying to resurrect this troubling legacy of Darwinian theory. Read More ›