Tag: pesticides

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Date
April 25, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Planetology
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, Anil Potti, Cameron English, chemistry, conservatives, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, distrust, Duke University, EPA, fraud, funding, government, Harvard University, Inspector Clouseau, Journal of the American Medical Association, Mount Sinai Hospital, National Institute on Aging, Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, Proxima Centauri, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samuel Gandy, Science (journal), taxpayers, Wall Street Journal, Woo-Suk Hwang, ZME Science}

Should Science Be Publicly Funded at All?

_{Science and Culture
April 25, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Planetology

5}

Waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding. Private funding could well be more intelligently directed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Life Sciences
Tagged
, agriculture, beef, California, corn, environmentalists, Europe, food, global warming, human benefit, New York Times, pesticides, pollution, Sri Lanka, United States}

Learning to Love Industrial Farming

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 18, 2024

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Life Sciences

5}

"Old MacDonald-style farms where soil is nurtured with love and animals have names rather than numbers may sound environmentally friendly." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 25, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, California, Canada, climate change, economy, firearms, government, medical assistance in dying, pesticides, public health, Racism, Second Amendment, smoking, Sudafed, suicide}

For Suicide, Disguised “Public Health” Policies Aren’t the Solution

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 25, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

8}

The authors even suggest regulations controlling the manufacture of ceiling fans because some people have used the mechanisms to hang themselves. Read More ›

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Date
February 27, 2020

Categories
Botany
Epistemology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, ammonia, BBC News, biosphere, dinitrogen, flowering plants, fungi, intelligent design, Jordan, maize, micronutrients, nitrogen fixation, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthetic bacteria, soil, water}

Getting to the Roots of Design

_{Science and Culture
February 27, 2020

Botany, Epistemology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Plants make food for everyone else, but they couldn’t do it without a lot of help from their microbial friends. Read More ›

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Date
January 29, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, alternative splicing, biochemists, biomolecules, cells, DNA, ENCODE, evolutionary theory, Human Genome Project, ID the Future, information, Jonathan Wells, jumping genes, junk DNA, methylation, Paul Nelson, pesticides, Phillip E. Johnson, polysaccharides, RNA, RNA transcripts, spliceosome, sugars, The Scientist, University of Chicago, University of Münster, Washington University}

Surprises in Cell Codes Reveal Information Goes Far Beyond DNA

_{Science and Culture
January 29, 2020

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

7}

Information is the stuff of life. Not limited to DNA, information is found in most biomolecules in living cells. Read More ›

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Date
March 20, 2019

Categories
Biology
Ecology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, apes, Australia, blue whale, cancer, crop circles, DNA, dragline silk, epigenetics, evolutionary tree, fairy circles, Harvard University, humidity, humpback whale, Illustra Media, intelligent design, Living Waters, Metamorphosis, milkweed, MIT, monarch butterfly, mutations, natural selection, NOAA, oxygen, pesticides, photosynthesis, PLOS ONE, proteasomes, Rubisco, Science Advances, spider silk, termites, UCLA, University of Sheffield, Weizmann Institute}

Fairy Circles, Spider Silk, Epigenetics, and More: Intelligent Design in the News

_{Science and Culture
March 20, 2019

Biology, Ecology, Intelligent Design

8}

So-called “fairy circles” yielded to a natural explanation, according to a research team: they are abandoned termite mounds. Now, however, another natural theory is rising. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
August 9, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Fleming, antibiotic resistance, atheism, BIO-Complexity, bioengineering, Christianity, Darwinian evolution, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Günter Bechly, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, intelligent design, Jonathan Witt, materialism, Matti Leisola, pesticides, Philip Skell, Richard Lewontin, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, The New York Review of Books, The Scientist, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn}

Correspondence: A Father, an Atheist Son, and Darwin Heretic Matti Leisola

_{Jonathan Witt
August 9, 2018

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

7}

The father had sent his son a copy of our book, urging him to read it so the two could discuss the evidence and arguments there. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 17, 2018

Categories
Environment & Climate
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, bees, bias, conservation, debate, environmental science, evolution, intelligent design, James Tour, pesticides, Phys.org, prebiotic chemistry, Research, Rice University, science, toxicity}

Toward Self-Scrutiny in Science

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 17, 2018

Environment & Climate, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

3}

Think about how this kind of reasoning relates to the intelligent design and evolution debate. Read More ›