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Will Laws Protecting the Unborn Endanger Mothers?

A fallacy used by abortionists and their allies is that doctors will be handicapped by having to comply with the law applicable to the care of their patients. Read More ›
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Photo: Unamused gorilla, by Matt Mechtley from Heidelberg, Deutschland, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Doctor’s Diary: There’s Nothing Funny About Evolution

Is a sense of humor a byproduct, an accident, or was it installed on purpose? For better health? There definitely seems to be a purpose. Read More ›
Palawan Water Monitor Lizard
Photo: Palawan Water Monitor Lizard, by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Read More ›
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Bioethicist Asks, “Does Birth Matter?” Answers, “No”

In our current episode of let’s-allow-baby-killing, an Australian bioethicist named Walter Veit comes to the defense of infanticide. Read More ›
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What the Darwin Lobby and the Transgender Lobby Have in Common

Some ideologies (such as Darwinism) wrap themselves in the mantle of science even though they lack — or are inconsistent with — the evidence. Read More ›
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Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Shows

The smartest of invertebrates, the octopus, once again prompts us to rethink what we believe to be the origin of intelligence. Read More ›
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Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences

If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge. Read More ›
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Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Read More ›
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Some Effects of Transgenderism

Children with gender dysphoria need help. But transgender treatments for them are not based on good evidence. Read More ›

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