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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Australia, cancer, European Union, fentanyl, fossil fuels, global warming, Massachusetts, meat, New England Journal of Medicine, New Zealand, Norway, Oregon, Philippines, Singapore, smoking, technocracy}

On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 2, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Is tobacco just the first villain to be punished by a growing technocracy that seeks to limit freedom based on an ever-expanding definition of “health”? Read More ›

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Date
February 24, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, data, economics, Elsevier, Gary Smith, Netherlands, New Zealand, Retraction Watch, science journals, United Kingdom, United States, University of Copenhagen, Zoom}

Data Can Appear in Science Journals — Out of Thin Air

_{Science & Culture
February 24, 2024

Bioethics, Physical Sciences

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While many researchers decried the results, University of Copenhagen econometrician Søren Johansen said something worth pondering. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 5, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", abduction, adaptation, CELS, Charles Darwin, Columbia University, Current Biology, equilibrium, Eric Anderson, gravity, Herbert Spencer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars, Mars rovers, molecular machines, New Zealand, planets, PNAS, Science Advances, Second Law of Thermodynamics, selective pressure, software, sponges, TEDx talk, University of Otago, University of Sydney, water}

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

_{David Coppedge
September 5, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 28, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Europe, gender, gender dysphoria, gender ideology, hormones, lawsuits, Medicaid, medical care, New Zealand, pediatricians, puberty blockers, puberty blocking, surgery, transgenderism, United States}

In U.S. and Europe, Gender Ideology as “Settled Science” Is Crumbling

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 28, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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In the U.S., an increasing number of states are passing laws or guidelines to protect children from potentially irreversible and life-shattering outcomes. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
February 22, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, atmosphere, California, carbon, climate change, diatoms, foresight, global warming, habitability, jellyfish, NASA, Nature Communications, New Zealand, Penn State, phylogeny, plankton, providence, reporters, Science (journal), Southern California, tunicates}

Meet the Ghostly Organisms that Rescue the Planet

_{David Coppedge
February 22, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Zoology

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A man was paddleboarding last month when he came across a mysterious creature three miles off the shoreline of California. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 14, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Australia, birds, brain, Canada, cephalopods, consciousness, crickets, Dogs, evolution, intelligence, Japan, London School of Economics, mammals, memory, New Zealand, octopuses, spinal cord, vertebrates}

If Octopuses Are So Smart, Should We Eat Them?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 14, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We have tended to assume that intelligence rose with the development of a spinal cord and brain (vertebrates), and warmbloodedness (mammals and birds). Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
March 8, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Altenberg 16, athletes, biological novelty, body size, Cambrian Explosion, Communications Biology, evolution, Gerd Müller, gradualism, humans, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Fodor, mammals, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, Nature (journal), Nature Communications, New Zealand, Paul Nelson, Royal Society, Science Daily, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Nature Communications Retroactively Concedes a Lack of Evidence for Darwinian Gradualism

_{Casey Luskin
March 8, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences

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Explaining the origin of complex phenotypic novelty is the million-dollar question in evolutionary biology. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 2, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, birds, chimpanzees, golf, intelligence, invertebrates, mammals, New Zealand, octopuses, Smithsonian Magazine, vertebrates}

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 2, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Africa, Alfred Russel Wallace, Americas, Australia, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, genocide, imperialism, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, New Zealand, Racism, Social Darwinism}

The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

_{Richard Weikart
February 9, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›

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Date
October 26, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adaptive Radiation, Brian Miller, Casey Luskin, Darwinian evolution, evolution, Hawaii, intelligent design, junk DNA, MIT, Neo-Darwinism, New Zealand, PNAS, Research, University of Michigan}

Non-Darwinian Adaptive Radiation Proposed

_{Science & Culture
October 26, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Is it possible that adaptive radiation is falling out of the Darwin trophy cabinet? A new proposal sounds amenable to intelligent design. Read More ›