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Journal Article Ignores Medical Objections to Puberty Blockers

Allowing an author to ignorecontrary evidence and increasing doubts about puberty blockers, etc., undermines New England Journal of Medicine’s purpose in being
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Medical and puberty blockers symbol. Medical uniform, white card with words 'puberty blockers'. Beautiful white background. Copy space. Medical and puberty blockers concept.

Slime Mold: Memory and Learning Without Neurons

Can memories be stored outside the brain? Once we have separated memory and learning from neurons — do the traditional assumptions about them still really apply?
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Slime mold / slime mould (physarum sp) on the decay log

Grok as Hitler II?: What Really Happened and What It Means

The long-postponed reckoning about what chatbots can and can’t really do is sure coming on fast
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Robot in jail made with Generative AI

A Sound of Thunder: Time Travel for Fun and Profit — and Tragedy

In this third part of my review, I look at the adaptations leading up to the climax — the ones that worked and the ones that didn’t
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An explosive scene featuring multiple clocks in a chaotic, surreal setting, symbolizing the concept of time and its tumultuous nature.

Does Dementia Show That the Mind Is Simply What the Brain Does?

People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason
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Landscape and Sky at Sunset

Academia Embraces the Unscientific Religion of ‘Nature Rights’

Cambridge University Press’s call for boosting the rights of nature is straight out of Gaia theory that holds that the Earth is a living being. That is not a science-based premise
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Greek god Gaia illustration, Gaia, the God is the personification of Earth. Gaia is the ancestral mother

Burying Stories Is No Way to Advance Science

A story about a man with a severe brain defect who led an apparently normal life has been almost buried in efforts to explain it away
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Doctor reviews brain scans

Why Do We Mourn the Deaths of Other People’s Children?

I share P. Z. Myers’s horror but the problem of innocent suffering is much deeper for the atheist than for the Christian
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storm causing flash floods A storm causing sudden flash floods in a residential area

Michael Shermer Disagrees With Me on the Ethics of IVF

He sees a contradiction between my respect for and embrace of children conceived via IVF and my ethical qualms about the process of IVF: “Another example of how religion clouds rationality”
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Modern IVF micromanipulator with Petri Dish in the laboratory of the in vitro fertilization. for insemination of the egg freezing. Sperm cryopreservation. Ovum fertilization procedure