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COVID-19, Random Mutations, and Aristotle’s Matrix of Design

Dr. Egnor draws upon Aristotle to argue that mutations and other random events only occur, and have their meaning, against a backdrop of purpose and design. Read More ›
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Neil Tyson Gets Ancient and Modern Medicine Wrong

Curiously, Tyson has a future, quasi-religious myth of his own to promote: personal immortality through futuristic technology. Read More ›
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Free Webinar, May 16: Compliant or Critical? Scientific Authority in the Age of COVID-19

“Follow the science!” we’re told. “Listen to the scientists!” Should we submit to such calls, or insist on thinking for ourselves? Read More ›
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The Science Guild’s Mask Is Falling Off

Theoretical physicist Richard Feynman quipped that “science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.” Read More ›
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Darwinism, Totalitarianism, and the Lockdown

Hannah Arendt was the leading philosopher of totalitarianism in the 20th century. She explicitly links totalitarian ideology to Darwinism. Read More ›
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From Pfizer, Scientism and Self-Congratulation

Amidst a controversial national lockdown, economic ruin, and mounting intelligence evidence pointing to an origin in a Chinese lab, the coronavirus has reminded us of a number of things. Read More ›
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The Bioethicist Pandemic

The increasing outsourcing of health-care policy to medical bureaucrats during the COVID-19 crisis illustrates a dangerous temptation. Read More ›
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The Scramble to Redeem The S-Blob

The S-Blob is increasingly under justifiable scrutiny for the most catastrophic scientific fiasco of the 21st century. Its defenders are spewing chaff like there’s no tomorrow. Read More ›
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Photo: A coronavirus, by CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MS; Dan Higgins, MAM / Public domain.

“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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