GROVE CITY, Pa. — This Monday afternoon, early in the 3 p.m. EST hour, I joined a throng on the campus of Grove City College to stare upward at the sky. That isn’t something we normally do. We did so…
I have spent my career in academic science and believe that merit and objectivity are essential guarantors of the scientific enterprise. Boycotts pose the greatest threat. Today, they are being used to target Israel, but, in reality, they are aimed…
Woke scientists and anthropologists have come to the conclusion that because our ancestors ate each other thousands of years ago, cannibalism is not as bad as we think it is. On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie…
The day had started out calm and sunny, until, for some strange reason, I opened the newspaper. There I learned that there is a mad scientist working to resurrect the extinct woolly mammoth. Seriously. A company named Colossal is working…
Harvard University has had a rough few months. It seemed as though the series of scandals that beset the once-revered university had culminated in the resignation of Claudine Gay, its former president. But this week brought forth revelations that dealt…
Observation. Question. Hypothesis. Experiment. Analysis. Conclusion. It’s a progression we all learn in middle school — so ingrained in us that we perhaps never wonder if science was ever done differently. But, solely applying skeptical inductive reasoning to the natural…
In 2022, the country’s two preeminent kidney associations, the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) and the American Society of Nephrologists (ASN), made changes to the definition of chronic kidney disease (CKD) that will likely revoke diagnoses in an estimated 5.51 million…
In my last article, I described what I called ignorance to the third degree: ignorance that is proud of itself, that boasts of having discarded vast fields of human knowledge. Since any sane person will be a bit embarrassed when…
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.” …
