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Life — A Normal Life, Mind You — Without a Brain

It’s hard to discuss these issues honestly because anomalies like the story of this French man tend to get buried or explained away. Read More ›
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In Unexpected Attack, Activists Deface Charles Darwin’s Tomb

Activists with Just Stop Oil seem to be attempting to enlist Darwin’s modern-day followers in their environment cause. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: New Fossil Stem Bird Is Surprisingly Modern

Why do we mostly hear only one side of the story in the media? I suppose we must be protected from dangerous questions that could come up. Read More ›
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Stifling Food Production to “Save the Planet”

After Sri Lanka’s government restricted non-organic fertilizer use, the economy and government collapsed. Read More ›
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Dutch Supreme Court Approves Euthanasia for Dementia

The Reuters story leaves out some details. The doctor had drugged the woman before starting to euthanize her, and instructed the family to hold the struggling patient down. Read More ›
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Help a Scientist Be a Hero

Our laws are made through a democratic process. These scientists are upset that democracy doesn’t empower scientists to dictate public policy. Read More ›

Reuters (Probably) Going to Falsely Link Academic Freedom Bill to “Intelligent Design” and “Creationism” (Updated)

Unfortunately, the Reuters reporter balked at my suggestion that fairness would dictate the article point out we aren't pushing ID into public schools, and the law doesn't do that either. Read More ›

Reuters’ Reporting on Kansas: Science Fiction

Yesterday, I blogged about Reuters’ inaccurate news report earlier this week, which wrongly claimed that the new Kansas science standards would remove evolution as part of the standard core curriculum in Kansas. That was before I read the revised and expanded version of Reuters’ report. Someone has now rewritten the original story. But instead of making it better, the writer has veered off into the realm of fabrication. Reuters’ revised report claims that Kansas is actually trying to include intelligent design in its science standards, as well as asserting as fact that intelligent design is “a form of creationism”:

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