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United States Is Becoming a Suicide Nation

We are well on the way now to becoming more like Canada, where we have seen how the euthanasia virus leads to terrible abuses. Read More ›
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Doctor’s Diary: No Such Thing as a Coincidence

I find coincidences everywhere I look, all the time. Consider a simple blade of grass. One could write a long treatise about the simultaneous goings-on therein. Read More ›
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On Tobacco, Technocracy Has a Clever New Idea

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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Photo: Curiosity rover on Mars, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS.

Top Science Journal: Let’s Export Wokeness to Outer Space

Equity advocate says future space colonies should be governed similarly to places like San Francisco or Portland. Read More ›
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Photo: A 2005 protest for Terri Schiavo, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Culture-of-Death Tipping Point

A legal battle raged for several years during which the country agonized and argued about the right and moral course.  Read More ›
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Photo: Peas, by Bill Ebbesen, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Fear of Suffering Is Driving Us Crazy

Our suffering phobia has triggered a harmful societal neurosis that has both subverted human exceptionalism and undermined societal common sense. Read More ›
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Suicide Tourism Comes to Oregon

Some jurisdictions are getting there faster and some slower. But that tide only flows in one direction. Read More ›
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Photo: California two-spot octopus, by Tom Kleindinst via Marine Biological Laboratory.

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›
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Photo: Alexander H. Stephens, by Matthew Brady, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Read More ›
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Photo: Portland’s elk statue in better days, by Cacophony (photograph) / Public domain.

Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief

What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top? Read More ›

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