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The Technocratic Authoritarians Still Want Their “Pandemic Treaty”

Wouldn’t it all have gone a lot better if, instead of our fellow Americans doing it to us, we’d handed over national sovereignty to an international body? Read More ›
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By Endorsing Political Candidates, Science Mag “Inflames Disdain for Science,” Says Science Writer

He added, however, “The upside is that it could incentivize needed reforms in our ideologically slanted academic and public health institutions.” Read More ›
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Weaponizing Science, Journals Indulge in Political Partisanship

I would say the same thing if they abused the name of science to wrap a Republican, or a Democrat, in it. Read More ›
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The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart

Two signaling molecules — strigolactone and ethylene — can work independently to begin the process of leaf senescence. Read More ›
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Harvard Prof Will Explain Science to Baffled Small City America

Professor Oreskes writes articles with titles like “The Reason Some Republicans Mistrust Science: Their Leaders Tell Them To.” Read More ›
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Charles Darwin statue
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Repair Trust in Science? In Science Magazine, Forrest Mims Replies

Charles Darwin is an example of a brilliant scientist who was nonetheless an imperfect human with some false ideas. Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith Asks, Is Your Body “Engineered”?

Or did it evolve through impersonal and random processes over countless millions of years of natural selection? Read More ›
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Listen: Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on COVID-19 as One of the Most Divisive Events in American History

Action was taken to suppress heterodox voices. Wesley Smith’s guest is one of those caught in this cultural oppression. Read More ›
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Eugenics Movement Presents Remarkable Historical Parallels with “Gender-Affirming Care”

Pushing trans theory on young children, molding their brains before they’ve reached the age of consent, is hardly giving them a free choice. Read More ›
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Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism

"NDE studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality." Read More ›

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