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Transforming WHO into a Public-Health Technocracy

This treaty would be the first essential step in granting WHO the actual power to impose policies instead of relying, as now, on persuasion. Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Benjamin Tillman, Columbia, South Carolina, by Billy Hathorn / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Honored by Statue, Democratic South Carolina Senator Said Some Blacks “Near Akin to Monkey”

Benjamin Tillman was a monster. He publicly defended lynchings. He drew on evolutionary racism to preach black inferiority. Read More ›
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Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Read More ›
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Remembering Senator Slade Gorton

Some will submit that his kind are gone, but I know that they are still around, because he helped get them there. Read More ›
Benjamin Tillman
Photo: Statue of Benjamin Tillman, Columbia, South Carolina, by Billy Hathorn / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Honored by Statue, Democratic South Carolina Senator Said Some Blacks “Near Akin to Monkey”

Benjamin Tillman was a monster. He publicly defended lynchings. He drew on evolutionary racism to preach black inferiority. Read More ›
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Phillip Johnson’s Legacy in Science Education and the Law

A Christianity Today obituary contains some misstatements about the law and legislative history regarding evolution education. Read More ›
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Historical Revisionism in the Terri Schiavo Case

The case tore this country apart, and alas, proved a significant accelerant to the spread of the culture of death in America. But it was not a matter of left versus right. Read More ›
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Darkness Rising: As It Turns Out, Not All Newborns Have a Right to Life

The culture of death — the dehumanization of the vulnerable and the unwanted — is fast upon us. Read More ›
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A Strange Way of Speaking About the Brain

A peculiar habit of disassociation is widespread among many who study the brain. Read More ›

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