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COVID: A Lab Leak — the Most Likely Cause — Is Not Discussible

Although COVID killed approximately 28 million people, the Chinese government makes discussion of its origin very difficult, says Matt Ridley
The science world has come to depend on China a great deal — for money, among other things — and dare not risk giving offense by unwanted discussion. Read More ›
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The execution by injection concept is visualized with a judge's gavel and a syringe on a wooden table, highlighting capital punishment

Get Ready for ‘Public Health’ Authoritarianism

The medical establishment is laying the groundwork for imposing left-wing political policies from the top down and disguising them as health-related
Lately, columns in professional journals have argued repeatedly that our most contentious political controversies be redefined into issues of public health. Read More ›
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Polling Season: Time To Be Manipulated!

The fact that polls can be analyzed numerically is one of their limitations for prediction
If we obsess about polling data, all we will hear is the distorted echo of our own voices. We need to focus on issues and policies instead. Read More ›
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Harris vs. Trump? Why Not an AI for President Instead?

A writer at the business magazine Forbes seriously considers that option. But look before you leap…
It would be a disastrous idea because sometimes creative decision-making is critical, but AI is and will remain clueless about that. Read More ›
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Does Mark Zuckerberg Really Regret All the Censorship?

He says he does. But is it too late to roll back government interference in news dissemination?
His letter to the House Committee, strategically or otherwise, doesn’t say whether Meta would have made the same decisions without government pressure. Read More ›
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Y chromosome on dark background. Blue color. 3d illustration.

Biologist Kicked Out of National Institutes of Health Event

Colin Wright and Tomas Bogardus, also ejected, deny being disruptive but both think that humans are sex binary. That may have been enough
In a world of private truth that owes nothing to either faith or science, dissenting opinion is an invasion from an alien universe. Stay safe by not hearing. Read More ›
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Scholars Association Changes Policy, Now Backs Academic Boycotts

If AAUP members have run out of challenging new ideas themselves, they can at least suppress them when they are introduced by others
Idea boycotts have been known to suppress new ideas for centuries. It used to be thought of as a negative idea, a sort of dark ages… Read More ›
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Olympics: The Woke Have a Message for Science: Scram

Science no longer has a seat at the High Table. I hope readers will think through the implications of that and what it portends for all of us
Science — when it gets in the way of Woke culture — is beginning to get the same treatment as religion: ignored, mocked, rewritten, and eventually attacked. Read More ›
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People with banners protest as part of a climate change march

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage
In a world where panpsychism is the science and neo-paganism is the art, environment activists’ rights will increase and workers’ rights will decrease. Read More ›
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Unborn Child Learns the Accents, Rhythms of Mom’s Native Language

There is, however, a dark, little-told tale about how we learned much of what we know about unborn children today
Although Narayanan frowns on pro-lifers using information to show the individual humanity of the unborn child, that’s clearly where the science points. Read More ›
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Anonymous crowd of people walking street wearing masks during covid 19 coronavirus pandemic

Let Him Who Would “Represent” Science Beware…

James B. Meigs looks at Anthony Fauci’s new book, On Call, asking what happened? What turned the highly esteemed doctor into a scheming authoritarian?
Fauci’s early career was brilliant; he gained the trust of angry opponents during the AIDS years. But the art of listening seemed to desert him later. Read More ›
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YouTube Tries to Take Down Deepfake Impersonations… Well, Sort Of

The difficulty is, as the technology explodes, so does a minefield of complications
YouTube doesn’t want to harm its business model, which thrives on sensation and controversy but it must also avoid at all costs a legal and political powderkeg. Read More ›
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View: Universities Should Not Speak Up Against Dissenting Profs!

Jay Bhattacharya and Wesley J. Smith respond to an article in a medical journal arguing that universities SHOULD censure dissenters on the faculty
How much good science would have seen the light in the last 600 years if “Institutional Voices” had been heard from even more often than they were? Read More ›
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It’s Not “Myths” That Cause Distrust in Science But Sad Truths

An astrophysicist, hoping to shore up public trust, means well but gets the problems all wrong
Ethan Siegel offers a fantasy representation of the science world. It may comfort him but it might provoke knowledgeable people to trust science even less. Read More ›
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COVID Felled Both Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci as Heroes

As Wesley J. Smith recounts, more honest researchers were discredited for saying things that Fauci and Collins later admitted to be true
As we find out what really happened, the credibility of our public-health systems has been shattered and “Trust the science!” is becoming a joke. Read More ›
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Earth Mother International day illustration 3d concept of gaia made with Generative AI

Harvard Law to Teach Rights of Nature

People think that such a whacky idea will never gain traction. But the nature-rights movement is making great headway
If the law grants geological features, viruses, and pond scum “rights,” our economies and human exceptionalism will be the victims. Read More ›
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Musk vs Australia: Down Under Is Down One For Now

A federal court has refused to extend the demand that Musk’s X platform remove videos showing the stabbing attack on Rev. Mar Mari Emmanuel
The story highlights once again, the way X (Twitter) is one of the few important social media to resist government censorship. Read More ›
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Deep Fake Videos Can Upgrade Political Humiliation and Rule by Fear

AI human impersonation video technology promises rule by terror to degrees never before imagined
When propaganda is easily generated, millions fully embrace their inability to know the truth. They can’t so it doesn’t matter and never will. Read More ›
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A Timely Leak Offers a Peek Into Chinese Cyberespionage Worldwide

What Chinese hackers are doing can sound as exciting as a spy movie — but it is much more dangerous
Some of the leaked documents shed light on the corrupt business practices inherent in the hacker ecosystem and on the role of the CCP government. Read More ›