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Wide angle shot of a campus science building with futuristic design, students in lab coats walking in and out, energetic vibe
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 31, 2025
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Peer Review, Science
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What Happens When Science Degenerates Into a Spoils System?

Chemistry prof Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail
Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2025
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Peer Review, Science
Krylov also calls out the practices of choosing citations on the basis of social justice merit instead of relevance and of censoring awkward findings. Read More ›
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Close up microscopic view of a sperm cell approaching and penetrating a human egg cell during fertilization in the reproductive process
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 31, 2025
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Philosophy, Politics, Science
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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
Denyse O'Leary
August 31, 2025
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Philosophy, Politics, Science
The transgender movement, like the teacher-driven war on math, has embraced the Skeptics’ own approach to reality and now uses it for ITS purposes. Read More ›
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A close-up view of a bunch of blue pills, showcasing a background medicine concept.
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 21, 2025
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Philosophy, Politics, Science
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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
Denyse O'Leary
August 21, 2025
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Philosophy, Politics, Science
Science, as both Darwinian Jerry Coyne and his non-materialist opponents know it, is one forlorn casualty of late-stage materialism, the world of private truth. Read More ›
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Charles Darwin observing Ape skulls
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 25, 2025
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Evolution, Philosophy, Psychology
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Salvo: The Facts and Fictions of the Scopes Monkey Trial

Society has changed so much that biologists face trouble not for believing in Darwinism but for believing in the reality of biology
Denyse O'Leary
April 25, 2025
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Evolution, Philosophy, Psychology
The biologists who would pride themselves on enthroning Darwinism as a public truth a century ago find that what is publicly true no long even matters the way it used to. Read More ›
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Small orange flags places in grass in memory of the thousands of Indigenous children that died in Canada's residential school system. Wide view.
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 27, 2024
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Ethics, Media, Philosophy, Politics
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Canada’s Residential Schools: A Saga of Journalistic Wrongdoing

Even as the story is collapsing for lack of evidence, there is a move afoot to criminalize doubt about what happened (denialism).
Denyse O'Leary
September 27, 2024
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Ethics, Media, Philosophy, Politics
Could it happen in the United States? Of course. It can happen anywhere where people are willing to ignore the demands of evidence in favor of private truth. Read More ›
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Y chromosome on dark background. Blue color. 3d illustration.
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 27, 2024
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Censorship, Politics, Religion, Science
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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
Denyse O'Leary
August 27, 2024
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Censorship, Politics, Religion, Science
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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Magic burning candles on glowing dark natural background. mysterious fairy scene. witchcraft ritual. dark natural Background. Samhain, Halloween holiday concept
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 22, 2024
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Philosophy, Politics, Science
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Will Scientists Be Forced to Consider the Occult as Science?

When the World Economic Forum invited a witch to Davos to offer incantations, it was more than just window dressing
Denyse O'Leary
January 22, 2024
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Philosophy, Politics, Science
Given the growing power of private truth, the future of science which, like religion, represents public truth is more uncertain than some expect. Read More ›