Tag: power

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 19, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, AIDS, Anthony Fauci, CDC, City Journal, COVID-19, diseases, FDA, Francis Collins, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, journalists, lawmakers, power, public policy, scientists, vaccine mandates}

What Turned an Esteemed Doctor into a Scheming Authoritarian?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 19, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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Fauci damaged his own reputation by trashing sound scientists, denouncing inconvenient evidence, and even going so far as to say “I represent science.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, bias, censorship, Galileo Affair, heliocentrism, ideas, information, intelligent design, peer review, power, publications, Research, Roman Catholic, scientific community, scientists, self-censorship, trust, truth}

PNAS Paper: “Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”

_{Casey Luskin
February 20, 2024

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The intelligent design community is well aware of the problem. One section in the paper that categorizes types of persecution sounds alarmingly familiar. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, abortion, anti-Semitism, Aryans, assisted suicide, C.S. Lewis, cowardice, culture, emotion, evolutionary theory, France, Germany, humanity, Jews, mortality, Nazi Germany, power, radio, skin color, That Hideous Strength, transhumanism, white supremacy, World War II}

The Nazis and Their Transhumanist Delusion

_{Peter Biles
January 17, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Technology

4}

A new series on Netflix shows what can happen when the delusions of transhumanism join forces with an appalling ideology. Read More ›

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Date
November 30, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agnostics, Alfred Russel Wallace, angels, beauty, cells, Charles Darwin, Darwinians, evolution, gods, human race, intelligence, intelligent beings, intelligent design, materialism, materialists, Michael Flannery, mind, nature, Nature's Prophet, power, purpose, spirits, universe, veins, Victorians}

New Thoughts on Evolution: Views of Professor Alfred Russel Wallace, O.M., F.R.S.

_{Science and Culture
November 30, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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"The scales on the wings of a moth," he said quietly, "have no explanation in Evolution. They belong to Beauty, and Beauty is a spiritual mystery." Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
November 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Technology
Tagged
, behavior, Christ, coercion, communication, conformity, education, Facebook, human person, industry, Instagram, Leviticus, media, medicine, military, mimesis, philosophers, power, prestige, propaganda, religion, René Girard, science, scientific community, social media, thin desire, TikTok, Twitter, whistleblowers}

Pressure, Propaganda, and Persecution through Mimesis

_{Ann Gauger
November 17, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Technology

6}

French philosopher René Girard discovered something new, new but very old, about human behavior. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, anti-communism, capitalism, Carl Weinberg, Christianity, Communism, Cornell University Press, creationism, Darwinism, evolution, Friedrich Engels, fundamentalists, history, immorality, Indiana University, Karl Marx, morality, Politics, power, Red Dynamite}

Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

_{Richard Weikart
June 1, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 9, 2021

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, anti-science, atheism, Ball State University, Big Tech, BioEssays, Canceled Science, Casey Luskin, conspiracy theorists, Darwinian theory, Eric Hedin, evolution, intellectual freedom, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, power, schools, Soviet Union, survey, The Federalist, United States, University of Michigan, Wikipedia}

Luskin at The Federalist — Freedom Is Threatened; Now Will You Listen?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 9, 2021

Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

4}

Critics of Darwinian theory have faced exactly such a campaign — not just recently but going back a couple of decades. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 26, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, academia, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Critical Theory, economics, Friedrich Engels, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lucifer, Marxism, Michael Egnor, natural selection, Paradise Lost, power, Walter Bradley Center}

Darwinism and Critical Theory — The Connection

_{David Klinghoffer
January 26, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

"Strange that it may seem, Darwin plays a central role in this drama. Karl Marx himself credited Darwin with much of his basic insight into human history." Read More ›

Golden Sunset Reflecting On A Breaking Ocean Wave

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 3, 2018

Categories
Epistemology
History of Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __edited, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotelianism, Big Bang, causation, Ed Feser, Enlightenment, Francis Bacon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Isaac Newton, knowledge, Maimonides, materialism, nature, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, philosophers, power, René Descartes, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Scientific Enlightenment, scientific revolution, scientists, secular humanism, Steven Pinker, Thomas Aquinas}

Knowledge, Power, and the Scientific Enlightenment

_{Michael Egnor
October 3, 2018

Epistemology, History of Science, Metaphysics

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A focus on power, to the neglect of wisdom, is fine, as long as it is recognized that mechanical philosophy is incomplete. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 5, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial intelligence, contagion, democracy, economics, Google, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, power, The Atlantic, tyranny, Walter Bradley Center, Yuval Noah Harari}

Egnor: Democracy, Tyranny, and Technology

_{David Klinghoffer
September 5, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

3}

“It is the obscurity of AI that most impairs liberty. We do not know what is being done to us or even what is being done by us.” Read More ›