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by | Dec 29, 2023

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…

by | Nov 4, 2023

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.” …

by | Aug 6, 2023

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…

by | Jun 1, 2023

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…

by | Aug 18, 2022

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…

by | Dec 25, 2021

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…

by | Nov 18, 2021

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…

by | Feb 22, 2020

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…

by | Jul 13, 2019

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…

by | Aug 3, 2018

Imagine two science teachers. Mr. Smith teaches straight out of the textbook. He expects students simply to memorize and correctly regurgitate. The other, Ms. Jones, supplements her teaching with challenging mainstream material that casts the textbook’s position in a new,…

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