despair Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date October 14, 2018 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, ALS, assisted suicide, Brittany Maynard, cancer, depression, euthanasia, interventions, Jack Kevorkian, Michael Shermer, Netherlands, Oregon, overdose, pain, Scientific American, suicide prevention, terminal illness, University of Toronto Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person Wesley J. Smith October 14, 2018 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 4 My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.” Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date June 15, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionScience EducationScientific Freedom Tagged , __k-review, Canada, evolution, First Amendment, Free Speech on Campus, Jordan Peterson, knowledge, lawsuit, Lindsay Shepherd, National Post, political correctness, University of Toronto Lindsay Shepherd’s University Endorses Free Speech Sarah Chaffee June 15, 2018 Evolution, Science Education, Scientific Freedom 5 She was called into a meeting and chastised by faculty members. She recorded the meeting and publicized the recording. Read More ›
Jordan-Peterson Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date February 15, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionEvolutionary PsychologyFaith & SciencePsychologyScientific FreedomSocial Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Bible, Christopher Hitchens, David Klinghoffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Globe and Mail, H.L. Mencken, Jacques Derrida, Jane Goodall, Jordan Peterson, Michel Foucault, post-modernism, Richard Rorty, Scopes Monkey Trial, Third Reich, Twitter, University of Toronto Jordan Peterson — Do the Stitches Hold? Denyse O’Leary February 15, 2018 Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Psychology, Scientific Freedom, Social Sciences 9 The modern heretic and YouTube sensation seeks to meld clinical and evolutionary psychology with Jung, Nietzsche, and the Bible. Read More ›
Will Universities Embrace Freedom, or Censor Ideas? Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date November 26, 2017 CategoriesBiologyScience EducationScientific Freedom Tagged , __k-review, "survival of the fittest", academic freedom, Canada, censorship, doctorate, evolution, free speech, Jordan Peterson, Lindsay Shepherd, PhD, truth, University of Toronto Will Universities Embrace Freedom, or Censor Ideas? Sarah Chaffee November 26, 2017 Biology, Science Education, Scientific Freedom 2 A teacher’s assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada was chastised after she showed a video of two professors from the University of Toronto debating. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 18, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent DesignPhysical Sciences Tagged , __k-review, Alfred Wegener, Continental Drift, Douglas Axe, Günter Bechly, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Laurence Moran, mechanism, Michael Denton, Michael Keas, plate tectonics, Robert Crowther, Stephen Meyer, theory, University of Toronto, William A. Dembski How to Think About Minority Science Views — The Case of Plate Tectonics David Klinghoffer October 18, 2017 Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences 5 The idea that continents drift is now taken for granted, but it wasn’t always. Read More ›
Jordan-Peterson Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 6, 2017 CategoriesHuman ExceptionalismScience Education Tagged , __k-review, clinical psychology, Douglas Axe, education, Harvard University, Jordan Peterson, Undeniable (book), University of Toronto Jordan Peterson — Advice for University Students David Klinghoffer June 6, 2017 Human Exceptionalism, Science Education 2 The unique gift of human beings to speak and advocate, our great power, is an argument in itself for our exceptional status in nature. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 30, 2015 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Ann Gauger, California, Casey Luskin, censorship, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinists, Debating Darwin's Doubt, Douglas Axe, Evolution News, Google, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Joshua Rosenau, Laurence Moran, National Center for Science Education (NCSE), Stephen Meyer, University of Toronto Why No Comments at Evolution News? David Klinghoffer October 30, 2015 Evolution, Intelligent Design 6 Now and then the query is posed in a polite manner by a thoughtful correspondent. Read More ›
Type post Author Douglas Axe Date January 20, 2012 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, animal, Cambrian Explosion, evolution, James Shapiro, proteins, science, University of Toronto On Protein Origins, Getting to the Root of Our Disagreement with James Shapiro Douglas Axe January 20, 2012 Evolution, Intelligent Design 1 It's as though most scientists are unwilling to put these fundamental ideas to a serious test. Read More ›
Type post Date January 20, 2012 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, animal, Cambrian Explosion, early Earth, evolution, RNA world, University of Toronto Tiptoe Through the (Cambrian) Tulips Science and Culture January 20, 2012 Evolution 1 A new oddity from the seas of the Cambrian era. Read More ›