Tag: TikTok

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 14, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, apology, Brian Kilmeade, broadcasting, dignity, emotion, ethics, Fox News, homeless, hospitalization, human beings, influencers, Iryna Zarutska, lethal injection, media, mental illness, murder, News, North Carolina, TikTok}

Did Brian Kilmeade Actually Say That?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 14, 2025

Ethics, Medicine

2}

We have to always remember that people who are homeless have equal intrinsic dignity as all other human beings. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
September 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Political Science
Tagged
, assassination, conservatism, Donald Trump, Ezra Klein, free speech, gang violence, grassroots, gunshot, Matthew Dowd, MSNBC, New York Times, Politics, religious liberty, Ross Douthat, shooters, TikTok, transgenderism, Turning Point USA, Utah Valley University, violence}

Charlie Kirk, Murdered in Dialogue with College Students

_{Peter Biles
September 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Political Science

4}

Kirk traveled the country and openly invited dialogue and debate among people with different views and backgrounds. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, culture, David Foster Wallace, Facebook, film, humanity, Instagram, Internet, journalists, literature, loneliness, modern life, money, television, TikTok, United States}

Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning

_{Peter Biles
April 9, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions. 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animal behavior, Carl Sagan, chimpanzees, confirmation bias, crows, Dogs, emotions, gibberish, humans, marine biologists, puppies, Scientific American, Stephanie Pappas, TikTok, Washington State, wolves}

By Using Floor Buttons, Can Dogs Talk?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2023

Life Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

The latest fad in the “Talk to the animals” arena appears to be a classic in confirmation bias. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
December 14, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, censorship, conspiracy theorists, COVID-19, doctors, Facebook, free speech, Internet trolls, Jay Bhattacharya, journals, LinkedIn, media, medical establishment, medical professionals, Minerva, pandemic, peer-reviewed journals, Research, scientists, TikTok, Twitter, viewpoint diversity, youtube}

How Media and the Medical Establishment Suppressed COVID Heterodoxy

_{Peter Biles
December 14, 2022

Medicine, Scientific Freedom

5}

That Twitter blacklisted and “shadow-banned” prominent medical experts like Stanford’s Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has since been confirmed. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 14, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Academy Award, Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, computer programmers, computer science, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Montañez, Grammys, Harvey Mudd College, humans, LaMDA, Lovelace test, pop culture, Robert J. Marks II, TikTok, Washington Post, worldview, Yahoo News!}

Experts Debate: Was a Chatbot Sentient?

_{Casey Luskin
November 14, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

8}

Lemoine was famously fired from Google earlier this year after he leaked a transcript of his conversation with Google’s advanced LaMDA chatbot program. Read More ›

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Author
Walter Myers III

Date
January 21, 2021

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Apple iPhone, branches, cellulose, computer programs, computers, Energy, Facebook, Fibonacci sequence, flowers, humans, Instagram, leaves, module, needles, nitrogen, oxygen, photosynthesis, pine tree, programmers, skin cells, soil, Southern California, sunlight, thermostats, TikTok, trunks, water}

Plant Diversity and Computer Programming

_{Walter Myers III
January 21, 2021

Botany, Life Sciences

8}

I asked the gardener how come, after all these years, the soil in my geranium pots is at roughly the same level. Read More ›