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Herd Immunity, Not Herd Mentality

The “field of public health” is complicit in the worst episode of scientific malfeasance in the 21st century. Read More ›
Geoffrey Simmons
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Photo: Center for Science & Culture Fellow Geoffrey Simmons in Jerusalem, courtesy of Dr. Simmons.

Coronavirus Response: Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Design in Nature and Medical Science

One might object that if our immune system were intelligently designed, it would be utterly immune to all pathogens. Read More ›
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Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›
Jack Kevorkian
Photo: Jack Kevorkian, speaking at UCLA, by RaffiJackMayer.JPG: Halebtsiderivative work: Francesco 13 / Public domain.

The Jack Kevorkian Plague

The pathogen I mean is a cultural pandemic, the embrace of doctor-prescribed suicide and of administered homicide. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Airman 1st Class Alexis Christian, via Peterson Air Force Base.

Doctor’s Diary: Our Remarkable Healing Processes and the Coronavirus Infection

There are several ways to fight this pandemic besides social isolation, wearing masks, and proper hand-washing. Read More ›
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Photo: Jonathan Wells, via Discovery Institute.

Evolution, Intelligent Design, and the Coronavirus: Biologist Jonathan Wells Explains

Does modern evolutionary theory guide medicine’s response to COVID-19? Not when you consider that most of the major treatments being used and pursued actually preceded Darwin. Read More ›
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Image: Louis Pasteur, by Albert Edelfelt (1885)/ Public domain.

Irreconcilable Differences: Can Darwinism Be Pasteurized?

An advocate for Darwinian medicine wants to bring two historical opponents in the design debate, Pasteur and Darwin, into a peace treaty for the good of public health. Read More ›
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Image: "Antibiotic resistance tests," by Dr Graham Beards (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

No, Despite Often-Heard Claims, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria Is Not Evolution

The treatment of infectious diseases with antibiotics is a superb example of intelligent design principles applied to medical research and human biology. Read More ›
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Photo at top: Breast cancer cell, via National Cancer Institute; “I Think” drawing, by Charles Darwin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Evolutionary Theory Might Explain…a Deadly Disease

Psychiatrist Randolph Nesse, a leader in this movement for “Darwinian medicine,” would require “questions about evolution in medical licensing examinations.” Read More ›

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