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Organoid Intelligence?: That’s AI Powered by Pizza and Beer

It may help us address environmental impact issues posed by AI

If organoid computing succeeds, the next generation of computers may need both software updates and daily feedings.

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Study: Adolescents Who Received Gender Reassignment Have Worse Mental Health

Those referred after 2010 had greater psychiatric needs than earlier cohorts.

The effects of medical GR and the expectations of the patient must be addressed before commencing the treatment.

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Law and Justice in United States of America

‘Detransitioner’ Wins $2 Million Medical-Malpractice Lawsuit

Case raises new scrutiny over medical oversight in irreversible procedures for minors.

The case did not challenge the general propriety of such “care” of minors with gender dysphoria, but alleged it was not appropriate in Fox’s particular case.

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A War Between Evolutionary Biologists May Be Looming

Nathan Lents says it doesn’t make a lot of sense” to think of sex in humans as binary. Colin Wright says, “Stop misleading the public”

Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.

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A close-up view of a human egg cell surrounded by sperm cells, illustrating fertilization.

How a Biologist Became a Casualty in the War on Reality

If evolutionary biology’s core belief is that everything human can be reduced to animal impulses, truth is merely a survival strategy. But nonsense proved more successful

Carole Hooven discovered that, where the sex binary nature of humans is concerned, the new elite at Harvard and The Lancet thrive on nonsense. But she can’t.

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Microscopic Flatworm in Low Light, Detailed Platyhelminthes Anatomy

Mind Rules, Not Matter, Biologists Say — in Journal Article

They argue that simple natural processes cannot explain embryological development. Instead, biology is directed by cognition

A revolution in biology? Too soon to tell but the fact that they are permitted to make their case signals greater openness to considering the evidence.

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How ‘Expedience Ethics’ Busts Through Moral Limits

Under the new definition, an embryo isn’t considered an embryo if it is to be used as research fodder rather than gestated.

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New Book: The Catholic Case for the Design of Nature

Fr. Martin Hilbert notes that the history of life seems more like a separate collection of bushes than a single tree

The great Catholic theologian Aquinas noted that “what happens in the working of nature is either always, or mostly, for the better,” which rules out chance.

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Michael Shermer: Wokeness Poisons Science and I Am No Longer Woke

A number of well-known one-way skeptics and atheists are beginning to feel the consequences of prescribed insufferable virtue

Maybe we need to believe that there is a Mind behind the universe in order to provide guardrails against deeply crazy stuff claiming to be science.

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cosmic symphony resonating throughout the universe with celestial bodies emitting harmonic frequencies that interweave to create a tapestry of cosmic music echoing through the void of space

Liberal Prof: Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives

Robert Shedinger’s findings certainly changed his perception of the nature of the controversy over Darwinism

He told colleagues he is planning a new book, tentatively titled “Why Liberals Should Ditch Darwin and Consider Intelligent Design.”

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Billboard Chris Asks a Sharp Question About “Evolution”

On a logical basis, Elston’s critique is unanswerable — but logic no longer has the status that it once did. Nor does evidence.

It may be that the big Whatever You Feel of private truth is here to stay and will slowly devour all forms of knowledge based on public truth.

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A personalized medicine approach using patient derived organoids for testing drug responses, optimizing treatments

Should ‘Experts’ Decide the Morality of Making ‘Humanized Animals’?

A major new article discusses implanting functional human brain tissue into animals, which could enhance their mental capacities

We can’t allow policies about some of the most powerful and potentially dangerous technologies ever invented to be left to the supposed moral “experts.”

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Single strand ribonucleic acid, RNA and molecular biology research

RNA: The Text Message System Between Cells?

RNA is a very old way that cells encode information so cells across the domains of life can read messages encoded by other cells in RNA — for good or ill

The Big Bang and its outcomes may explain the origin of matter and energy but do they really explain the origin of information?

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Darwin’s Bold Bluff: He Never Demonstrated His Evolution Theory

He often promised he would demonstrate it. But, as Robert Shedinger shows, when he didn’t, his supporters decided to just act like he had

Their strategy worked quite well because, by gentleman’s agreement, everyone closed ranks and no one asked hard questions — until quite recently…

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The cosmic dance of galaxies in a mesmerizing wildlife astrophotograph

Nobel Prize Physicist Thinks Consciousness Must Underlie Universe

Brian Josephson, after whom the Josephson effect in electronics is named, hopes to find the answer to the conundrum of consciousness in biology

As Kuhn marvels, Josephson reasons his way to precisely the sorts of conclusions generally accepted in major world religions.

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Researchers: Living Cells’ Cognition Drives Evolution

“Natural selection is cognitive selection,” they say, arguing that cells exhibit meaning and purpose, contrary to Darwinian evolution theories

Cognitive selection, as present even in the earliest living cells, directs the history of life in their view, enabling meaning and purpose.

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Biology Needs a Fresh Look — But Is It Afraid of What It’ll Find?

A science writer’s musings make clear that intelligent design is the only reasonable explanation for the human genome’s ordered complexity

But Philip Ball doesn’t want to go there and neither do most biologists — thus there are so many issues they just can’t raise.

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The cells of the body are being attacked by bacteria. Generative AI.

Physicists: Perhaps Life Is a Unique State of Matter

A physics gathering next week at the University of Rochester will explore the significance of the fact that life, unlike non-life, needs and uses information

One question the physicists must eventually tackle is, can agency come into existence without an Agent? And how can meaning exist in a mindless universe?

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Why Panpsychism (Everything Is Conscious) Is Gaining Ground

Many life forms do unexpectedly remarkable things. It is simpler to broaden the circle of consciousness than to keep on trying to prove that human consciousness is just an illusion

Panpsychism will face a setback, however, when it tries to show that human consciousness is merely on a continuum with animal consciousness. It isn’t.

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Will a Machine Ever Behave Like a Life Form?

A theoretical biologist developed a mathematical theory in 1991— so far not disproven — that a machine could not replicate life via calculations

The “strange loop” of life — a loop with no apparent beginning in non-life — was, Robert Rosen concluded, beyond the reach of computing.

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