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Judge Rules Chickens Are “Akin to Children”

Animal abuse is wrong because it causes gratuitous pain to the animals involved. That is enough in and of itself. Read More ›
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Without Free Will There Is No Justice

Of course Manson acolyte Leslie Van Houten chose to kill, just as millions of law-abiding people choose not to kill. Read More ›
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Criminal Prosecution as a Cudgel Against Dissenters

The Planned Parenthood prosecution of David Daleiden and a colleague was a particularly egregious example of this authoritarianism. Read More ›
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In Praise of “Devout Catholics”

Democratic VP pick Tim Kaine and Brown University biologist Ken Miller have this is common. Read More ›
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The Lowdown on the Louisiana Science Education Act

It's ironic that a law aimed at clarifying science for students should provoke so much obfuscation from its critics. Read More ›
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Evolution’s Enforcers Are Waaaaay Out of Step with Public Opinion

The bullies may fully reign on campuses, but only there. Read More ›
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For July 4 Weekend, Poll Shows Huge Support for Academic Freedom in Teaching, Research on Evolution

Demonized by the media, independence of thought on biological origins is backed overwhelmingly across the broadest spectrum of Americans. Read More ›
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California Hospitals Are Opting Out of Assisted Suicide

Here's the very bad news: California has legalized assisted suicide. What's the somewhat good news? Read More ›

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