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Hitler Youth
Photo: Hitler Youth, via Bundesarchiv, Bild 147-0510 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nazis and Their Transhumanist Delusion

A new series on Netflix shows what can happen when the delusions of transhumanism join forces with an appalling ideology. Read More ›
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COVID-19
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Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution

Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19. Read More ›
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To Restore Faith in Public Health, We Need Truth Commissions

We have seen the erosion of the scientific method through the suppression of dissenting points of view. Read More ›
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COVID-19
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s Next Big Idea

Known as the Norfolk Group, Bhattacharya and his co-authors hope to create a national commission to explore the official responses to Covid. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Ignaz Semmelweis, Budapest, by Tim Ellis via Flickr (cropped).

Listen: Ignaz Semmelweis Against the “Experts”

It’s just one of many historical instances of experts clinging to an old paradigm in the face of contrary scientific evidence they don’t like. Read More ›
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The Human Cost of Coercive Science

Lockdowns were imposed on society in the name of science, although the actual scientific basis of many of the measures employed was unclear at best. Read More ›
Treatment of patients in the ICU aboard USNS Comfort in New York, New York

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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More Backstory on Our First-Couple Paper: Why Wasn’t This Done Before?

For the last forty years, population geneticists have repeatedly said that our population was never smaller than several thousand. Read More ›
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Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial

“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?” Read More ›

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