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Politicized Science Can Be Deadly; Time to Restore Integrity

Imagine there was a pandemic and people found themselves greeting statements from scientists, conveyed by the media, with increasing jaded skepticism. Read More ›
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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 ›
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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 ›
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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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