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Now Living Is a “Psychiatric Disorder”

The broader problem, I think, is that too many of us believe that an overriding purpose of society is the prevention of suffering. Read More ›
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Put Up or Shut Up for Evolution? Nearest “Habitable” Planet Found Orbiting Proxima Centauri

Intelligent design can live easily with the idea of inhabited worlds beyond Earth. Read More ›
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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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Canadian Bar Association Wants More Euthanasia

Once a society accepts the premise that killing is an acceptable answer to suffering, here's what happens. Read More ›
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Twenty Years Ago Today, Did This Change the Evolution Debate Forever?

On Saturday, August 10, 1996, Dr. Stephen Meyer and I organized an event to publicly launch the Center for Science & Culture. Read More ›
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NIH Can’t Be Trusted to Regulate Animal/Human Research

We have to be careful how we react to stories like this and not assume that all such work is, by definition, unethical. Read More ›
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An Orangutan “Speaks,” “Orates,” Engaging in “Conversation,” “Surprisingly Like Our Own”?

A case study in science media hype. 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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