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And — No Surprise, Really — Now It’s WILD Animals’ Rights
Like many progressive activists, Michael Burrows is far less concerned with our welfare than that of animals. He even opposes conservation efforts because these involve human control
Scientist Cuts Ties with Top Journal Nature over Ideological Bias
Warnings about the ideological pollution of science journals have not convinced the funders or editors of these important publications to institute reform
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”
Humanists Cancel Steven Pinker’s Lecture Over Trans Issues
The Humanist Society of Australia pulled out of sponsoring his lecture because they linked him with a defense of the idea that humans are male or female
YouTube Admits to Broad Censorship Program, Vows Reform
Amid the uproar over comic Jimmy Kimmel’s brief Cancellation over comments about the Charlie Kirk slaying, this much bigger story slid by unnoticed
COSM 2025: Publisher Steve Forbes’ Take On National Debt Crisis
He will be one of the participants in a panel discussion on That Unpleasant Subject at COSM 2025 in Scottsdale, Arizona, in November this year
Part 2: What If We Apply Harris’s “No Lies” Rule to Warfare?
As a former defense contractor, let me offer a view from reality
Wall Street Journal: A Disappointing Fret About “Conspiracy Physics”
If physicists are starting to “worry about the consequences” of discussing long-term theory failure, it is reasonable to think that there are even more serious problems within the discipline
Lying: Sam Harris Buckled Under the Weight of Absolutism
Part 1: Having written a book on why it is always wrong to lie, he shamelessly buckled when a particular outcome mattered to him
Charlie Kirk Shooting: A Reader Who Lives Nearby Reflects
"Our kids had friends at the event on the university campus. My son's brother-in-law is a police officer who was on scene"
Reuters Pulls Vid Where Xi Hails Organ Transplants for Longevity
Putin didn’t seem to care much about what he was heard to say about organ transplants but China is known to harvest organs from doomed political prisoners
Winds of Change: Skeptic Mag Defends Sex Binary Nature of Humans
It's not Skeptic Magazine that has changed. Rather, a change in our society created a need for a psychologist to come forward there to defend so obvious a proposition
Why the Mind Matters: No Free Will = No Guilt — Thus No Innocence
Michael Egnor spells out the true consequences of materialism: We come to be seen as animals to be managed by government
A Biologist Struggles to Understand “Unscientific Wokeness”
Truth, for many people now, is based on social, emotional, or political needs. And major science publications are buying in
Only Bioethics Can Save the Planet! Really?
Some bioethicists want to include “planetary health” among the disciplines for which they propose ethical rules
International Tribunals Grant Rights to Nature, Restrict Energy
This means restricting fossil fuel development, including in areas where people are currently living in destitution
Erik J. Larson Reviews Sobering Recent Book on AI Shaping Society
In the Los Angeles Review of Books, he examines the ideas in Robert Sidelsky’s recent book, Mindless - and their implications
Mistaking the World for a Puzzle Risks a New McCarthyism
In Part 2, I look at the imaginary world we invent when we succumb to puzzle thinking