Category: Pseudo Science

Scientific issues dominated by political/social concerns rather than the facts

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How Google and MSM Use “Fact Checkers” to Flood Us with Fake Claims

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My cmnt: The absolute evil of the Left, the democrats and the MSM (mainstream media – that is all of the alphabet networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, PBS, etc.) the large city newspapers (i.e., The New York Times, The LA Times, The Boston Globe, etc.)) putting out fake news and then rebutting their own fake news when conservatives reference it is the very definition of entrapment. They ought to be ashamed of themselves if they had any shame left. Guest essay by Leo Goldstein – Oct 30, 2017 – for Watts Up With That The Left implemented a novel technique … Continue reading How Google and MSM Use “Fact Checkers” to Flood Us with Fake Claims

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CDC Drops Universal Masking Recommendation for Healthcare Workers

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) quietly dropped its universal masking recommendation for healthcare workers last week By HANNAH BLEAU – 27 Sep 2022 – for Breitbart news My cmnt: I’ve published here on this website any number of authoritative articles stating that mask wearing is mostly to entirely worthless in controlling or preventing the spread of the Wuhan Chinese SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus. Mask wearing is either virtue signalling by the Left or a sign of compliance and control of the sheep. According to the federal health agency, which updated its guidance September 23, the changes were made “to reflect the high levels … Continue reading CDC Drops Universal Masking Recommendation for Healthcare Workers

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Climate Change Forecasts: Like Data’s Dad are Often Wrong

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By Larry Elder – Posted: Aug 25, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Be sure to read the comments below this column. My cmnt: Also click this link: Newsweek 1975: The Cooling Worldhttps://iseethics.files.wor…The closing paragraph is a hoot. My cmnt: Even Data’s Dad, Dr. Noonien Soong, derisively called Often Wrong, got some things right. Not so with climate change (i.e., man-made global warming alarmists) religious nuts. The earth worshiping climate fanatics are actually ALWAYS wrong. Their track record is zero. My cmnt: Click here to see 50 years of failed predictions. “‘The trouble with almost all environmental problems,’ says Paul … Continue reading Climate Change Forecasts: Like Data’s Dad are Often Wrong

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Big Tent Originalism

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Originalism is the most meaningful approach to constitutional interpretation. by Jeremy Rabkin – Summer 2018 – for Claremont Review of Books Ilan Wurman’s valuable new book, A Debt Against the Living, lives up to its subtitle: it offers an “introduction.” Wurman wants to persuade readers that “originalism”—the effort to read the Constitution in accord with its original meaning—is a serious project. And he wants to show that it is, in fact, a much more reasonable approach than alternatives that leave judges free to improvise new meanings based on contemporary fads or priorities, thus defeating the point of a written constitution. At the … Continue reading Big Tent Originalism

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Did Physics Kill God?

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By Jay W. Richards – Nov 3, 2010 – discovery.org JAY W. RICHARDS NOVEMBER 3, 2010  INTELLIGENT DESIGN ORIGINAL ARTICLE Stephen Hawking declared that our understanding of physics proves God did not create the universe. Is he right? Stephen Hawking holds the chair of mathematics at Cambridge University once held by Sir Isaac Newton. So when he declared that our understanding of physics shows that God did not create the universe, it was bound to get attention. Summarizing the thesis of his new book, The Grand Design (co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow), Hawking announced: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can … Continue reading Did Physics Kill God?

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Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?

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There are concerning trends on blood clots and low platelets, not that the authorities will tell you. By Joseph A. Ladapo and Harvey A. Risch – June 22, 2021 1:09 pm – Wall Street Journal One remarkable aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic has been how often unpopular scientific ideas, from the lab-leak theory to the efficacy of masks, were initially dismissed, even ridiculed, only to resurface later in mainstream thinking. Differences of opinion have sometimes been rooted in disagreement over the underlying science. But the more common motivation has been political. Another reversal in thinking may be imminent. Some scientists have raised concerns that the … Continue reading Are Covid Vaccines Riskier Than Advertised?

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Is the Universe Made of Math?

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In this excerpt from his new book, Our Mathematical Universe, M.I.T. professor Max Tegmark explores the possibility that math does not just describe the universe, but makes the universe By Max Tegmark on January 10, 2014 – Scientific America Excerpted with permission from Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark. Available from Random House/Knopf. Copyright © 2014. My cmnt: My PhD physics buddy: Please let me know what your take is on all of this. What’s the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything? In Douglas Adams’ science-fiction spoof “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, … Continue reading Is the Universe Made of Math?

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They’re All Good Dogs, and It Has Nothing to Do With Their Breed

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Retrievers that don’t retrieve and Papillons that point are all possible because the genes that shape dog behavior predate modern breeding that focuses on appearance, researchers find. By James Gorman – April 28, 2022 – for The New York Times My cmnt: I take this article worth a grain of salt. If you’re dealing with purebreds my lifetime of experience has shown me that absolutely breed makes a difference in dog behavior, skills, intelligence, interests and more. Let me know what you think in the comment section below. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t judge a dog by its … Continue reading They’re All Good Dogs, and It Has Nothing to Do With Their Breed

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Teen Testifies in Opposition to ‘Gender-Affirming’ Medical Treatment, Regrets Double Mastectomy

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By Penny Starr – 30 Jun 2022 – for Breitbart.news A teen girl who was medically treated to “transition” into a boy, including having a double mastectomy, testified about the damage done to her future. “I will never be able to breastfeed a child,” Chloe Cole said Tuesday at a California Assembly hearing on legislation that would make the state a “sanctuary” for minors seeking to alter their biological sex through drugs and surgery. “I have blood clots in my urine,” the girl said. “I am unable to fully empty my bladder. I do not yet know if I am capable of … Continue reading Teen Testifies in Opposition to ‘Gender-Affirming’ Medical Treatment, Regrets Double Mastectomy

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‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders

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By Rikki Schlott – June 18, 2022 – for The New York Post My cmnt: These girls stories will break your heart. The evil Libs and democrats preying on young girls by encouraging them to transition to boys. The wickedness of the Left knows no bounds. “I was failed by the system. I literally lost organs.” When Chloe was 12 years old, she decided she was transgender. At 13, she came out to her parents. That same year, she was put on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone. At 15, she underwent a double mastectomy. Less than a year later, she … Continue reading ‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders

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Beware: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet

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By Stephen Moore – Posted: Jun 07, 2022 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Electric vehicles can never replace the internal combustion engine – period. And the mining of rare earth and other metals is an environmental nightmare just to make windmills, solar panels and car batteries. Green is the color of envy and is unbecoming on everyone. The untold story about “green energy” is that it can’t possibly be scaled up to provide anywhere near the energy to replace fossil fuels. (Unless we are headed back to the stone ages, which is what some of the “de-growth” advocates favor). Right … Continue reading Beware: 100% Green Energy Could Destroy the Planet

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The Truth about “Inherit the Wind”

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by Carol Iannone – February 1997 – for First Things My cmnt: Darwinism is quite simply philosophical materialism dressed up as Science Let’s set the stage In the middle of the hot summer of 1925, the famous “Monkey Trial” took place in Dayton, Tennessee, a small town of about eighteen hundred people in the Cumberland Valley. A young teacher named John Scopes stood accused of violating the Butler Act, a measure passed earlier that year to restrict the teaching of evolution in state-funded schools. The defense featured the famous attorney Clarence Darrow, and the prosecution starred the celebrated orator, populist, … Continue reading The Truth about “Inherit the Wind”

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3 Myths From Trans Folklorists That Allow Men Like Lia Thomas To Hurt Themselves And Others

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BY: WALT HEYER – FEBRUARY 03, 2022 – 8 MIN READ – for The Federalist Changing genders is a myth and trans folklorists who promote it are harming people, especially children vulnerable to believing fairy tales can come true. University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a man, has smashed records and shocked sensibilities. Thomas’s performance illustrates the effects and absurdity of denying differences between the sexes, especially men’s obvious bodily advantages in sports. Thomas presumably fulfilled the NCAA’s policy requiring trans athletes to suppress testosterone levels for a designated time before competing on the woman’s team. In January, the NCAA tweaked the rules to place sport-specific … Continue reading 3 Myths From Trans Folklorists That Allow Men Like Lia Thomas To Hurt Themselves And Others

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I Know What Happens To The Kids in ‘Transhood’, Because It Happened To Me

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BY: WALT HEYER – FEBRUARY 05, 2021 – for The Federalist A new HBO Max documentary, “Transhood,” follows for five years the lives of four Kansas City, Mo. children who believe they are the opposite sex. I identified as a “transgender woman” for eight years. Today, watching this documentary, I marvel at how the events of my childhood groomed me into believing that identifying as the opposite sex was the solution to my gender confusion. My heart goes out to these children who also are being groomed into a transgender life. A Purple Dress Took My Boyhood Away I can trace … Continue reading I Know What Happens To The Kids in ‘Transhood’, Because It Happened To Me

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Lia Thomas Teammate: Locker Room ‘Definitely Awkward’ Because Thomas’ Male Genitalia Exposed

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“Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women.” By Hank Berrien •Jan 28, 2022   DailyWire.com A teammate of Lia Thomas on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team told the The Daily Mail that the locker room she shares with Thomas is “definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women.” The Daily Mail report includes that the anonymous teammate stated that although Thomas’ male genitalia are often covered by a towel, there have been a number of times Thomas’ nudity has been revealed, exposing the genitalia for the women … Continue reading Lia Thomas Teammate: Locker Room ‘Definitely Awkward’ Because Thomas’ Male Genitalia Exposed

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CDC’s Rochelle Walensky just ‘said the quiet part out loud’ and admitted that for Dems, the COVID pandemic has always been about politics

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Posted at 10:36 am on December 29, 2021 by Sarah D – in Twitchy My cmnt: I will tell you what really made the CDC change the self-quarantine period from an unworkable 10 days to 5 – it was because this massive, intrusive, unnecessary testing of people who are not even sick – but especially those in the NFL and the NBA that caused them to revise the “science”. Liberals can play along with utter nonsense for as long as it takes to make their political points – that is until it starts to interfere with what THEY value – … Continue reading CDC’s Rochelle Walensky just ‘said the quiet part out loud’ and admitted that for Dems, the COVID pandemic has always been about politics

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Ignore Fauci, See Your Family and Go to Church

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Katie Pavlich | Posted: Dec 24, 2021 9:30 PM – for Townhall.com Well, here we are again. With the latest version of Wuhan coronavirus swirling, medical fascists and tyrants are telling Americans to shun their unvaccinated family members for yet another holiday gathering.  Out of an abundance of caution they don’t want you going to church on Christmas either, even if you’ve had three doses of the vaccine. After all, that would be gathering in a large group. “One of the questions that Dr. Walensky and I and Dr.  Murthy and others get asked very frequently is that, right now, … Continue reading Ignore Fauci, See Your Family and Go to Church

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Fauci Emails Show We Should Question the ‘Science’ on Climate Change

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Katie Pavlich | Posted: Jun 04, 2021 2:20 PM – for Townhall.com This week, thousands of emails belonging to National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Anthony Fauci were released after a Freedom of Information Act request was filed by Buzzfeed and the Washington Post.  The biggest revelations from the document dump include Fauci being told Wuhan coronavirus was “potentially engineered” in a lab, show him arguing drug store masks don’t offer protection from the disease, that he frantically sent papers to colleagues about dangerous gain-of-function research and downplayed the need for a vaccine.  Publicly, Fauci was telling a different story, … Continue reading Fauci Emails Show We Should Question the ‘Science’ on Climate Change

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The “Science” Mantra

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By Thomas Sowell – Dec 22, 2009 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Tho’ this was written twelve years ago it is as pertinent for our times as if it had been written today. Since the intelligentsia (as Sowell refers to the Liberal Elite below) decided that Darwinism would assist in the overthrow of the Biblical worldview that underpinned Western culture it has been promoted and insisted upon as science despite the nearly total absence of factual evidence in support of it and the suppression of vast amounts of evidence that contradict most of its central tenets. My cmnt: Besides the … Continue reading The “Science” Mantra

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The Fauci Who Cried Wolf

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By Ann Coulter – Dec 8, 2021 – for Townhall.com My cmnt: Dr. Fraud Fauci, that diminutive troll, has been a liar and deceiver since the beginning of his long reign in public health serving as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Anyone who stays in a very important position until he is 80 means he enjoys the prestige and power too much. Orchestra conductors, Supreme Court Justices, senators and reps, Joe Biden (if he can even stay in office another year), and Fauci. Justice Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg was so old and sick while on … Continue reading The Fauci Who Cried Wolf

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Taking Leave of Darwin

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A Longtime Agnostic Discovers the Case for Design Here is an interesting little book which at 146 pages won’t leave you bogged down in any but the most necessary detail the author requires to explain himself and his enlightenment. For those of my readers who would like to dig deeper into the foundation of modern atheism I can recommend any number of books exposing in detail the fallacious hypothesis which is Darwinism. Simply drop me a note under ‘Contact’ in the menu and I will email you back a list. Please let me know a little about your background or … Continue reading Taking Leave of Darwin

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Neither Vaccinated Nor Unvaccinated: How Churches Imposing Vaccine Mandates Are Dividing Christians With A ‘Different Gospel’

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By Megan Basham – Oct 25, 2021 – for DailyWire.com In July, New York City’s Redeemer Presbyterian — Tim Keller’s theologically conservative church, firmly embedded in the mainstream of American evangelicalism — quietly posted a statement to its website regarding service attendance: “Individuals who are fully vaccinated … are welcome to sit on the main floor of the sanctuary without social distancing and masks will be optional … Individuals who are not fully vaccinated … are welcome to sit in the balcony …” The language of the announcement was understated but the import was not — Redeemer Presbyterian had effectually segregated … Continue reading Neither Vaccinated Nor Unvaccinated: How Churches Imposing Vaccine Mandates Are Dividing Christians With A ‘Different Gospel’

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Dr. “Mengele” Fauci pays for torturing beagle puppies

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Anthony Fauci Facing Quiz Over NIH Funding for ‘De-barking’ Beagle Puppies BY DARRAGH ROCHE ON 10/23/21 AT 8:04 AM EDT – for Newsweek.com Bipartisan legislators demand answers from Fauci on alleged puppy experiments By Jackie Salo October 24, 2021 2:35pm  Updated – for The New York Post My cmnt: Here is some background on Dr. Josef Mengele for those of my many readers too young to know who he was: Approximately 30 physicians served at Auschwitz while Mengele was assigned to the camp. As a required part of their “rounds,” medical staff performed “selections” of prisoners on the ramp. These selections determined who from among … Continue reading Dr. “Mengele” Fauci pays for torturing beagle puppies

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Why Evolution is Different

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Two Reasons Why a Bad Theory Remains Popular by Granville Sewell March 2, 2021, 6:33 AM – for Evolution News Section 5.1 appeared at Evolution News and Views (www.evolutionnews.org) September 2, 2014 (see also the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJua-0FpmnI). 5.1 Why Evolution is Different In the current debate between Darwinism and intelligent design, the strongest argument made by Darwinists is this: in every other field of science, naturalism has been spectacularly successful, why should evolutionary biology be so different? Even most scientists who doubt the Darwinist explanation for evolution are confident that science will eventually come up with a more plausible … Continue reading Why Evolution is Different

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Healthy Polar Bears and Thriving Tigers: The Common Climate Tale

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Vijay Jayaraj | Posted: Dec 12, 2020 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com Editor’s note: this column was coauthored by Calvin Beisner.  My cmnt: I included the chart below to show that the climate always changes but man-made global warming is a scare tactic that is not happening. The climate warms and cools all the time. This is mostly due to solar activity and sunspot increase or decrease. The earth is also affected by volcanic activity. Neither of these two major contributors to climate change are under the control of man. When I was taking Western History at UNL in 1971 … Continue reading Healthy Polar Bears and Thriving Tigers: The Common Climate Tale

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Dogmatic Signs – A Review of Signature in the Cell

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PHILLIP E. JOHNSON NOVEMBER 10, 2010 INTELLIGENT DESIGN PUBLISHED IN TOUCHSTONE MAGAZINE For anyone who wants to understand the argument for the necessary role of intelligent design in the history of life, the indispensable source is now Stephen C. Meyers’ book Signature in the Cell (HarperOne, 2009). For cultural reasons, when arguments for the validity of Darwin’s theory of evolution have been made in the past, emphasis has often been placed on the question of human descent from ape-like ancestors. Meyers’ book, in contrast, directs attention to the scientifically most important subject: the origin of the cell and its complex molecular mechanisms. Meyers’ analysis is … Continue reading Dogmatic Signs – A Review of Signature in the Cell

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IEA report shows Biden climate policies make US entirely dependent on China

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from JunkScience.com Check out how Biden climate policies (i.e., more wind, solar and EVs) would increase out dependency on China for raw materials and processing.  Here is the IEA report. Below are the two key graphs. You would think the green desire for more wind, solar and EVs would grease the skids for more domestic production of vital materials. But you would be wrong.  Check out the front-page New York Times article today on how greens are working to stop lithium production in the US.  If both Biden and the greens succeed, US national security will be entirely compromised. Continue reading IEA report shows Biden climate policies make US entirely dependent on China

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Richard Dawkins Gets Canceled by the ‘Freethinkers’

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By CHARLES C. W. COOK – April 20, 2021 – for National Review The American Humanist Association proves the point that transgenderism will brook no dissent. My cmnt: Oxford professor Richard Dawkins is best known as a popularizer of Darwinism and a vocal opponent of Biblical Christianity. He is an oft-quoted darling of the Left and is the first person they run to for a quick slam against conservative Christians and politicians who have the temerity of pointing out the absurdities of Darwinist claims and Leftist politically correct propaganda. My cmnt: Dawkin’s description of the God of the Old Testament is … Continue reading Richard Dawkins Gets Canceled by the ‘Freethinkers’

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Hungary Cuts Taxpayer Funding To Inane Gender Studies Departments

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There is an intra-academic war to control the academy, and the reason is simple: control of institutions like media and academia is essential for a social revolution. By Sumantra Maitr OCTOBER 18, 2018 – for The Federalist “Gender studies challenge existing structures that are perceived as natural and enduring, and in doing so, they directly challenge the ideological commitments of the radical right,” thundered an obscure British teaching fellow named Megan Armstrong in an op-ed for openDemocracy. Armstrong argues that Hungary’s lurch toward the right is essentially an attack on open inquiry at universities, as shown by the latest hardline move of “banning” gender studies … Continue reading Hungary Cuts Taxpayer Funding To Inane Gender Studies Departments

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The conceptual penis as a social construct

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My cmnt: The conceptual penis as a social construct was actually published here in Cogent Social Sciences. It was sent to these deranged Leftists as legitimate research by two writers simply wanting to demonstrate that completely off-the-wall, zany, gobbledygook is easily mistaken, even by so-called experts, for real-world science. I publish just page one here because you probably wouldn’t believe it otherwise. My cmnt: Taken from an article by By Peter W. Wood JUNE 1, 2017 – for The Federalist – here is an explanation: A different mathematician and different philosopher teamed up to write and publish an article in an academic journal in … Continue reading The conceptual penis as a social construct

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Some actual benefits from the Covid-19 over reaction

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Covid-19: the most over-hyped, over-blown ‘pandemic’ in the history of mankind still has an upside As of today allegedly 500,000 Americans have died of Covid-19. That figure is most likely overstated by a factor of 10. In a typical flu season between 25 and 50,000 Americans die from the flu. Most of those are very young children and elderly adults. The remarkable thing about the Wuhan Flu is that children are hardly affected by it at all. According to Dr. Scott Atlas, senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and former chief of neurology at Stanford University Medical Center, “the … Continue reading Some actual benefits from the Covid-19 over reaction

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Due to Global Warming unprecedented cold hits U.S.

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By Sycophant Press – Feb 15, 2021 – from the AP Dateline: Lincoln, Neb. Democrat Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird acknowledges that the citizens of Lincoln are in for a Dark Winter echoing her mentor and spirit-guide, fake president Joseph O’Biden. “He who walks in Darkness” warned us that there would be shortages of natural gas after he closed America’s largest natural gas reservoir in the Marcellus Shale (PA & WV) – 2,836 billion cubic feet. Mayor Baird continued, ‘It is unfortunate, and no one expected it would happen so quickly, but we are going to have some rolling blackouts of … Continue reading Due to Global Warming unprecedented cold hits U.S.

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The Transgender Question

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Derek Hunter | Posted: Feb 09, 2021 12:01 AM – for Townhall.com My cmnt: I have only included parts of this essay and have adapted it as I deemed fit to express what I want to convey to my readers (words in purple are mine). Click Townhall above for Hunter’s full column. I have a growing body of posts on this site referencing transgenderism and what I think of it. You can search this site by transgender to find them. Lest you think I am too far off base here be sure to read the column below this one showcasing … Continue reading The Transgender Question

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As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man

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by David Klinghoffer@d_klinghoffer November 9, 2020, 4:13 PM – for Evolution News & Science Today My cmnt: see my post Ernst Haeckel: Social Darwinist, Racist & Fraud. Ecologist Jeremy Fox at the University of Calgary offers a list of scientific frauds, with Piltdown Man at the top of the list. Writing at his blog Dynamic Ecology, he remarks, “Gonna be hard to top this one, I think.” Is it? From, “What’s the ‘greatest’ scientific fraud of all time?” Charles Dawson (it almost certainly was him) faked actual fossils rather than, say, numbers in a spreadsheet. Although he didn’t fool everyone, … Continue reading As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man

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A Third Infinity — The Infinite Complexity of Cells

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by Michael Denton – October 2, 2020, 6:47 AM – for Evolution News and Science Today Editor’s note: We are pleased to offer this excerpt from Dr. Denton’s new book, The Miracle of the Cell. In terms of compressed complexity, cells are without peer in the material world, actualized or imagined. And there is likely far more complexity still to uncover. Even as recently as 1913, when Lawrence Henderson composed his classic The Fitness of the Environment, the cell was a black box, its actual molecular complexity a mysterious unknown. Only as the veil began to lift with the mid-century … Continue reading A Third Infinity — The Infinite Complexity of Cells

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Ernst Haeckel: Social Darwinist, Racist & Fraud

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Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist and an strong proponent of scientific racism. He, and Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, were highly influential in promoting the idea, strong among liberal political socialists, that African people were genetically inferior and should be wiped out or at least limited in their population. Haeckel promoted and popularized Charles Darwin’s work in Germany and embraced an interpretation of Darwin’s pseudo-scientific theory of modification with descent that promoted the idea that “survival of the fittest” was a natural law that could be applied to … Continue reading Ernst Haeckel: Social Darwinist, Racist & Fraud

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Darwinism: In pictures

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Darwin drew a lot of criticism from his contemporaries and a fair amount of ridicule also. His fellow biologists and other scientists realized the many weaknesses in his theory and to his credit so did Darwin. His critics were mostly correct but Darwin glossed over the deficiencies in his theory rather than admit the theory simply did not correspond to the observed world. Darwin himself raised these points in his seminal work.  He recognized that they were valid objections then and unfortunately for the committed Darwinist they remain valid objections today. The first is the fossil record.  Darwin knew this … Continue reading Darwinism: In pictures

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Giving Up Darwin

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A fond farewell to a brilliant and beautiful theory. A review of Stephen Meyer’s thoughtful and meticulous Darwin’s Doubt (2013) By David Gelernter – in the Claremont Review of Books – Spring 2019 My cmnt: Article edited for brevity and clarity. Darwinian evolution is a brilliant and beautiful scientific theory. Once it was a daring guess. Today it is basic to the credo that defines the modern worldview. Accepting the theory as settled truth—no more subject to debate than the earth being round or the sky blue or force being mass times acceleration—certifies that you are devoutly orthodox in your scientific views; … Continue reading Giving Up Darwin

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No Need to Panic About Global Warming

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The Wall Street Journal OPINION JANUARY 27, 2012 No Need to Panic About Global Warming There’s no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to ‘decarbonize’ the world’s economy. My cmnt: Anyone with any real knowledge of the history of science knows that ‘scientific consensus’ is not how we settle scientific arguments.   Too many times to mention has scientific consensus been proved wrong by later discoveries.   What matters in science is demonstrable data and facts available to everyone that show some article of scientific doctrine to be correct, at least for the time being. The science we universally teach … Continue reading No Need to Panic About Global Warming

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The Real Climate Science Deniers

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Paul Driessen|Posted: May 16, 2020 12:01 AM – for TownHall.com Posted: May 16, 2020 12:01 AM Fifty years ago, I helped organize Earth Day #1 programs on my college campus, calling attention to serious pollution problems that afflicted much of the USA. Over the ensuing decades, laws, regulations, and changed attitudes, practices and technologies reduced most of that pollution, often dramatically. I didn’t buy into the 1970 end-is-nigh, doom-and-gloom, billions-will-die hysteria that Ron Stein and Ron Bailey summarize, including the manmade global cooling crisis. I don’t buy it today, either – certainly not this year’s Earth Day focus on the alleged manmade global warming crisis, also blamed on emissions … Continue reading The Real Climate Science Deniers

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A Guide to Basic Differences Between Left and Right

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By Dennis Prager Source of Human Rights Left: government Right: the Creator Human Nature Left: basically good (Therefore, society is primarily responsible for evil.) Right: not basically good (Therefore, the individual is primarily responsible for evil.) Economic Goal Left: equality Right: prosperity Primary Role of the State Left: increase and protect equality Right: increase and protect liberty Government Left: as large as possible Right: as small as possible Family Ideal Left: any loving unit of people Right: a married father and mother, and children Guiding Trinity Left: race, gender and class Right: liberty, In God We Trust and e pluribus … Continue reading A Guide to Basic Differences Between Left and Right

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Essay on Purpose

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Chance  or No Chance     The same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather owing to one than to the other.     – Abraham de Moivre, Doctrine of Chances, 1718                          … Continue reading Essay on Purpose

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A review of “Darwin on Trial” and a response

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In the July 1992 issue of  Scientific American Stephen Jay Gould wrote a scathing review of Phil Johnson’s book Darwin on Trial.  My cmnt: I have included Gould’s review, in full, below because it is hard to find without a visit to the library. He called it, Impeaching a Self-Appointed Judge, a clever take on the fact that Phillip Johnson was one of the premier law professors in the country. After unsuccessfully ignoring the book for two years, Gould finally attempted to discredit it with his nasty review, claiming the book was full of errors. Johnson wrote a detailed response–but Scientific American refused to … Continue reading A review of “Darwin on Trial” and a response

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University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change

Lord Buckbeak

By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Sunday, October 20, 2019 Nobody has done more to sink the claim that climate change is endangering polar bears than zoologist Susan Crockford — and she may have paid for it with her job. After 15 years as an adjunct assistant professor, Ms. Crockford said the University of Victoria rejected without explanation in May her renewal application, despite her high profile as a speaker and author stemming from her widely cited research on polar bears and dog domestication. Ms. Crockford accused officials at the Canadian university of bowing to “outside pressure,” the result of her research showing that polar … Continue reading University dumps professor who found polar bears thriving despite climate change

Climate change, Democrat Corruption, Politics, Pseudo Science1 Comment

Climate ‘Experts’ have poor track record

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Breitbart News Climate ‘Experts’ Are 0-41 with Their Doomsday Predictions by JOHN NOLTE 20 Sep 2019 For more than 50 years Climate Alarmists in the scientific community and environmental movement have not gotten even one prediction correct, but they do have a perfect record of getting 41 predictions wrong. In other words, on at least 41 occasions, these so-called experts have predicted some terrible environmental catastrophe was imminent … and it never happened. And not once — not even once! — have these alarmists had one of their predictions come true. Think about that… the so-called experts are 0-41 with … Continue reading Climate ‘Experts’ have poor track record

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Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming

Lord Buckbeak

My cmnt: With the further politicalization of science by the world’s Leftists and nature worshipers we must all be on our guard against false claims of ‘science’ and scientists who, like in the former Soviet Union and Russia today, demand consensus rather than actual observations to be the determining factor in what is science and what is not. Wall Street Journal on-line OPINION February 21, 2012 Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming The authors of the Jan. 27 Wall Street Journal op-ed, ‘No Need to Panic about Global Warming,’ respond to their critics. Editor’s Note: The authors of the following letter, listed … Continue reading Concerned Scientists Reply on Global Warming