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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden insists that, if he wins the November election, his COVID-19 policies will “follow the science.”…
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The story on Tucker Carlson Tonight was startling. Chinese virologist Dr. Li-Meng Yan, as Fox reported, “claimed to have evidence…
“We, the people” is the phrase that comes trippingly to mind. We, the people, over Memorial Day weekend, initiated an…
When politicians begin slinging around words like “expert” and “science,” any sensible citizen becomes a skeptic. Being elected to public…
It was around 1973, and I was attending a small Midwestern college. This being the ’70s, the school was already…
Washington Can science lead to dumb panic? It’s a question I’ve been asking as the stock market cannibalized itself in…
University of Oxford developmental psychologist Dr. Olivera Petrovich has spent years researching a single question: Are children predisposed to belief…