Tag: social justice

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 13, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, atheism, Brights, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, corpses, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Ernst Mayr, John West, New Atheism, Pharyngula, private truth, Professor Dave, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Scott Alexander, social justice, Stephen Jay Gould, toxic masculinity, YouTube videos}

Atheism’s Four Horsemen — Where Are They Now?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 13, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

6}

"For example, I look at Pharyngula, which during its heyday was the biggest atheist blog on the Internet." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Education
Tagged
, algebra, algorithms, ancient Greeks, Arabs, California, Colin Wright, education, Jerry Coyne, literacy, pi, pizza, private truth, Pythagorean Theorem, Richard Dawkins, social justice, University of Nevada, whiteness, zero}

What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 18, 2023

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education

6}

The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 26, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Science
Tagged
, abstract concepts, abstract thought, abstractions, animal intelligence, bottlenose dolphins, chimpanzees, Dogs, dolphins, neuroscience, rabbits, social justice, time travel, University of Buffalo}

Claim: Dogs Can Form “Abstract Concepts”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 26, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Science

3}

It’s a good idea to be skeptical when any such claim is followed up with the assertion that humans “aren’t that cognitively unique after all.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, arthritis, birds, children, emotional contagion, emotions, folklore, hermit crabs, horses, inequality, mammals, New York Times, pigs, privilege, reality, Salon, social justice, squirrels, The College Fix, World Economic Forum}

Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 26, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atheism, Charles Darwin, decay, environmentalism, intelligent design, John Zmirak, Lawrence Krauss, race, Return of the God Hypothesis, social justice, Stephen Meyer, The Stream, theology}

Meyer: Is the Author of Nature’s Design Good? And Other Questions

_{David Klinghoffer
May 26, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physics

6}

We have an exceptionally woke Congregational church in the neighborhood that has a marquee out front whose contents I’ve come to thoroughly enjoy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, birth, gender, gender dysphoria, journals, man, nonbinary, social justice, Supreme Court, The New England Journal of Medicine, transgenderism, wokeness, woman}

Top Medical Journal: No Sex Designation on Birth Certificates

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 16, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

3}

The authors also want sex designations removed from important documents such as passports. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 7, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, animal rights, animals, courts, environmentalists, equality, farmer, humans, laws, lawsuit, lawyers, nature, Racism, radicalism, social justice, speciesism}

“Social Justice” Inflates to Include Animals

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 7, 2018

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

5}

An article published in Biological Conservation illustrates environmentalism’s metastasizing misanthropy. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 1, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-science, community, conservative, definition, fact, hypothesis, ideology, objectivity, Politics, progressive, Sabine Hossenfelder, science, scientific method, scientists, social justice, truth}

Science Is Not Simply “What Scientists Do”

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 1, 2017

Evolution, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

I was alarmed to see physicist Sabine Hossenfelder accept as a definition of ”science,” not a method, but merely “what scientists do.” Read More ›