Tag: New York City

Looking and smile elderly woman portrait on a dark background

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, blood pressure, C. Everett Koop, cognitive impairment, death, delay, dementia, drug interactions, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, grandmother, health conditions, medicine, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, old-age home, prevention, Quebec, Resolve to Save Lives, Science Alert, Tessa Koumoundouros, The Formula for Better Health, Tibi Puiu, Tom Frieden, urinary tract infection, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science}

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Discovery Institute, English, Europe, Europeans, faith and science, fine-tuning, France, Galileo Galilei, God the Science the Evidence, Greenwich Village, heat death, Michel-Yves Bolloré, New York City, Nicolaus Copernicus, Nobel Prize, Olivier Bonnassies, Palomar Editions, Princeton University, relativity, Return of the God Hypothesis, Sigmund Freud, Spain, St. Joseph’s Church, Stephen Meyer, UC Berkeley, United States, universe}

New Book: God Hypothesis, European Style; Events at Princeton, Berkeley

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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In the faith context, the popular picture in America of what Europe is like — the land that God forgot — may need to be revised. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, advisors, artificial intelligence, Bobby Zenith, California, ChatGPT, companionship, confidants, Connecticut, counselors, delusions, editing, emotional intelligence, empathy, employees, friends, guardrails, intimacy, John West, journalists, kindness, kitchen tips, liability, memory, mental health, mental illnesss, Microsoft, Microsoft AI, Microsoft Copilot, misconduct, murder-suicide, Mustafa Suleyman, New York City, Old Greenwich, OpenAI, recipes, Stein-Erik Soelberg, suicide, tech companies, technology, Wall Street Journal, writing}

In Connecticut, Horrors of AI Finally Come into View

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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A 56-year-old man, living with his mother in a wealthy New York suburb, developed a “friendship” with ChatGPT. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
July 14, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Amazon, astronomer, beavers, biochemists, biology, chance, Easter Island, elements, evolution, gods, helium, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, iron picks, Laurence Moran, life, necessity, New York City, Norman Lockyer, Occam’s razor, On the Origin of Species, parsimony, skyscraper, smartphones, special creation, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, stone hammers, Stonehenge, will}

How Did the Designer Do It?

_{Daniel Witt
July 14, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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It seems the debate has not progressed much in a century and a half. Clearly, these evolutionary theorists think they have an unanswerable line of attack here. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 5, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bureaucracy, censorship, China, Christians, civil rights, COVID-19, dissent, Donald Trump, epidemiologists, Evangelical Christians, Facebook, Great Barrington Declaration, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Mark Zuckerberg, National Institutes of Health, natural immunity, New York City, public health, social media, South Africa, Stanford University, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Road to Wisdom, United States}

Frightening Recommendations from Francis Collins

_{John G. West
December 5, 2024

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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The former NIH head thinks the government didn't exert enough control during the last pandemic. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
October 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, abortion pill, Albert Olszewski, Alberto Giubilini, Ana Rosa Rodriguez, Animal Liberation, aversive action, babies, birth canal, blood samples, brain, curette, developmental biology, dilatation and curettage, dilatation and evacuation, distress, fetal age, feticide, fetuses, Food and Drug Administration, gestational age, Guttmacher Institute, Indiana, injury, Montana, New York City, newborns, Nik Hoot, pain, Peter Singer, petri dish, phenylalanine, phenylketonuria, Planned Parenthood, pregnancy, prosthetic legs, Roman Catholic, Russia, Should the Baby Live?, Sopher clamp, tissue, United States, Washington Post}

At What Point In Its Development Can a Human Being Feel Pain?

_{Jonathan Wells
October 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Logic isn’t a sufficient answer to the question I raised, however. For a scientific answer, we need evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood vessels, brain, cells, chromosomes, digestive enzymes, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), Dubai, enzymes, evolution, genetic disease, genetic instructions, heart, human body, intelligent design, Library of Congress, movies, nano-machines, Nautilus, New York City, nourishment, proteins, RNA, stem-cell, submarine, supplies}

Doctor’s Diary: A Truly Fantastic Voyage!

_{Geoffrey Simmons
July 17, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The old movie mostly dealt with the brain, lung, heart, blood vessels (all at the tissue level) and a few scattered cells. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
May 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrea Roli, Big Bang, Charles Darwin, Dalton, Douglas Axe, Epicureanism, Epicurus, Evolution “On Purpose”, flukes, intelligent design, Latin, Lucretius, Michael Behe, New York City, On the Nature of Things, philosophers, predictions, Stuart Kauffman, universe, University of Bologna, worldview}

Science Versus the Oldest Anti-Intelligent-Design Argument

_{Daniel Witt
May 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Translation: Everything that exists was made not by intelligent design, but rather by the random arrangement and rearrangement of atoms. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 14, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Big Science, Elon Musk, entertainment, evolution, film, movies, Neuralink, New York City, parasite, Sam Altman, Spider-Man, transhumanism}

Science Gone Wrong, Thanks to a Hasty Transhumanist

_{Peter Biles
April 14, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

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“40,000 years of evolution and we’ve barely even tapped the vastness of human potential." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, Dogs, Duke University, hard problem of consciousness, Max Tegmark, MIT, neuroscience, New York City, Paul D. MacLean, triune brain theory, Yale University}

Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›