broken-glass-in-a-window-frame-stockpack-adobe-stock-64703461-stockpack-adobestock Type post Date November 24, 2025 CategoriesEthicsScientific Reasoning Tagged , Anna Stilz, Brooklyn, deceit, defamation, Elsevier, fraud, Mike Rossner, oversight, paper mills, peer review, Philosophy & Public Affairs, publish or perish, Real Clear Investigations, research integrity officers, reviewers, Sage, secrecy, Springer Nature, taxpayers, Taylor & Francis, UC Berkeley, Vince Bielke, Wiley What a Declining System Looks Like: Fraud Crisis in Science Grows Science and Culture November 24, 2025 Ethics, Scientific Reasoning 5 Profits are artificially maintained by tax dollars so sinking quality does not send the alarm signals it would otherwise. Read More ›
doctor-and-patient Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 3, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyMedicine Tagged , Brooklyn, California, children, fertility, gestation, health insurance, IVF, males, medicine, New York City, pathology, The Guardian, transgenderism, uterus Why We Will Never Control Medical Costs Wesley J. Smith October 3, 2022 Bioethics, Biology, Medicine 4 The purposes of medicine are expanding rapidly beyond treating actual illnesses/injuries and promoting wellness. Read More ›
Gertrude Himmelfarb Type post Author Michael Flannery Date December 23, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , Brooklyn, Brooklyn College, Daniel Dennett, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinism, David Berlinski, Down House, Edmund Burk, England, George Eliot, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Irving Kristol, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, Janet Browne, Jews, Lord Acton, Oliver Cromwell, Protestants, Roman Catholic, The Devil’s Delusion, The New Republic, The People of the Book, Thomas Henry Huxley, University of Chicago #10 Story of 2020: Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb Michael Flannery December 23, 2020 Evolution 7 It is comforting to know that Himmelfarb never lost her intellectual acuity or her moral passion on the subject. Read More ›
lit match Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date January 4, 2019 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __k-review, Brooklyn, Buddhism, Buddhist monks, China, climate change, earth, Martin Luther King, mental illness, misanthropy, obituary, suicide, Tibet, World Health Organization Romanticizing a Suicide “for the Earth” Wesley J. Smith January 4, 2019 Bioethics 3 The harsh fact is that Buckel’s suicide was futile. It won’t make a whit of difference toward improving the environment. Read More ›
Carl Sagan Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 23, 2018 CategoriesPhysical Sciences Tagged , __edited, Brooklyn, Carl Sagan, Children of Light, cosmic fine-tuning, earth, electromagnetic spectrum, extraterrestrial life, fitness, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, light, materialists, Milky Way, photosynthesis, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, solar system, Stephen Hawking, sun, universe, vision, water Denton Turns Sagan’s “Humdrum Star” on Its Head David Klinghoffer October 23, 2018 Physical Sciences 3 “Flooded with the light of life”: What a beautiful way of putting it. This creates a double dilemma for materialists. Read More ›
witch-chic Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date November 3, 2017 CategoriesBioethicsEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , __k-review, atheism, Brooklyn, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, Donald Trump, John West, mysticism, New York Times, occult, religion, Richard Dawkins, science, Theosophy, witchcraft New York Times Links Darwin, Dawkins, and Witchcraft Chic David Klinghoffer November 3, 2017 Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science 3 It's pretty remarkable to see these ideas connected so explicitly. Read More ›