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Bioethicist Jumps Shark, Goes After Whole Milk

To paraphrase Freud: Sometimes whole milk is just whole milk. It’s about improving health, not promoting bigotry. Read More ›
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The Nigerian Experiment: Social Darwinism in Practice

In the late 19th century, Great Britain, the United States, and twelve European nations got together and divided Africa up among themselves. Read More ›
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With Neanderthals and Denisovans, We Are All the Same Kind of Being

Evolutionary anthropologists need to stop putting people groups into “less evolved” categories. It’s a form of historical racism.  Read More ›
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›
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Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it. Read More ›
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21st-Century Darwinism’s Impossible Situation

The nasty racial implications of Darwin’s theory should not just be tastefully ignored. Read More ›
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How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence. Read More ›
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Monkey Men: The Fables That Inspired Evolutionary Theory

“For, that there are men with tails,” wrote Lord Monboddo, “…is a fact so well attested that I think it cannot be doubted.” Read More ›
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John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea

Darwin’s purely materialistic theory of evolution has drained meaning from nature. Read More ›
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Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Read More ›

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