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Hey Smithsonian, Make Humans Exceptional Again

Denying human exceptionalism is intended to make human visitors to the museum feel animal-like and without special dignity. Read More ›
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Jay Richards on an Icon of Intelligent Design and 20 Years of a Bifurcating Culture

If wokeness leads to promoting surgical sexual mutilation of children, maybe we need to rethink the whole thing. Read More ›
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Luskin in the NY Post Calls Out Smithsonian on Human Origins

The museum misinforms visitors about how humans are so very, very close to non-human creatures. Equating humans with non-humans isn't humane. It's the opposite. Read More ›
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Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Read More ›
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When Materialism Turns on Its Own

A cadre of atheist scientists, including Lawrence Krauss and Jerry Coyne, have long worked to silence and deplatform scientists who hold to the theory of ID. Read More ›
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This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After … Capitalism

Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Read More ›
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Why We Can’t Trust the Science Journals — A Climate Scientist Explains

Patrick Brown left academia so he could engage in better science. And, that allowed him to write this article. Read More ›
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Luskin: Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That; They Practiced on Us

"Those 49 words — suggesting that students consult a library book if they wanted to learn more about a scientific idea — were too much for the thought police." Read More ›
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Will This Proposal “Fix Science”?

There are many, many ways that science has stopped functioning. Certainly, one of them is that it incentivizes the wrong things. Read More ›
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Should We Give Nature “Rights”? A Premier Science Journal Says Yes

The text is too long to present here, so I will give one example: the “right to evolve.” The authors note that “evolution” has many meanings. Read More ›

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