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The Rise of Totalitarian Science, 2022 Edition

Now, after two years, facts are becoming clearer — and so are the momentous consequences of the pandemic for our culture. Read More ›
CRISPR
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Sound the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

As Wesley Smith explains, it’s not just that germline editing could lead to unintended health consequences. Read More ›
Francis-Collins
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#5 Story of 2021: Francis Collins’s Troubling Record at NIH

NIH Director Francis Collins is being praised as “a national treasure,” but his real legacy is anything but praiseworthy. Read More ›
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A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›
Plasmodium falciparum
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Two Recent Papers Buttress Michael Behe’s Thesis in Darwin Devolves

Evolution’s grand tree-of-life story requires constructive evolution, not more and more cases of organisms tossing parts overboard. Read More ›
human brain
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Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind.  Read More ›
Matthew Scholz
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Manipulating Molecules: Combining Info + Nano for Better Medicine

“Oscar Wilde said nature imitates art,” Meyer said. And today we’re going to see that “technology is able to imitate and even in some ways, improve on nature.” Read More ›
mechanical brain
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Neurosurgeon and Neuropsychologist Agree: The Brain Is Not the Mind

"I had to understand what people were and what the mind was in order to make sense of neuroscience! And I still find that." Read More ›
C. S. Lewis
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Watch: How C. S. Lewis Predicted the Rise of “Scientocracy”

“I dread government in the name of science,” C. S. Lewis wrote in 1958. “That is how tyrannies come in.” Read More ›
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Ann Bauer: Science Tyranny, Science Uprising

Do yourself a favor and read a heartbreaking and beautifully written essay, "I Have Been Through This Before." Read More ›

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