The gray mantle of evening had finally shrouded the light of a balmy midsummer’s day, and the good citizens of Doylestown, Pennsylvania were busy trimming their lamps and preparing their beds for the night when all of a sudden news…
In the last week or so, I’ve run into quite a few people who profess to be appalled by the supposed scientific ignorance of the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, inasmuch as he “does not believe in evolution.” …
Much is being said right now about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb. The reason, of course, is the new film on Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan. The film has opened old debates and wounds about Oppenheimer’s communist…
The Trial of the Century By Gregg Jarrett with Don Yaeger (Threshold Editions, 304 pages, $30) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Americans today live in a country where there are constant news stories of the…
Science in an Age of Unreason By John Staddon (Regnery Gateway, 256 pages, $27) “Science is about is not ought,” John Staddon repeats in variation throughout his new book, Science in an Age of Unreason. But people who are so…
The emergence of the Omicron variant has breathed new life into the covid panic machine, and just in time for the birth of Christ! Doesn’t it feel like we have been here before? I don’t know about you, but I…
Sophie Halberstadt was 26 years old and pregnant with her third child when she fell ill with the Spanish influenza. The tell-tale symptoms appeared on January 20, 1920, and worsened steadily over the next five days, just as the rain…
In the dystopian 2006 cult classic film Idiocracy, the collapse in humanity’s collective IQ 500 years hence is explained by a narrator describing how in the early 2000s, evolution no longer rewarded the human species’ most noble and salutary traits. Two…
Political views are ultimately derived from philosophical views, and political revolutions are usually preceded by philosophical revolutions. Currently, a revolution with philosophical implications is taking place in the scientific world. The revolutionaries are still a minority, and they are largely ignored…