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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2021
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Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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John West tries once again to get YouTube to accept a documentary about scientific racism

News
July 25, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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West: My documentary only tells one part of the story of racism, and it also only tells a part of the story of the influence of Social Darwinism on Western imperialism, which certainly extended to other nations besides Germany. Yet I hope my revised film will add something to the current conversation. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Media
Science
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Lancet accused of sitting on important COVID-19 study, maybe costing lives

News
July 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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The reason COVID-19 matters in our discussion of issues at UD News is that it may be the first time many people begin to understand one of the things we have been trying to talk about here for years: The way “science” can just become a club of people who front (and maybe even believe) certain things and suppress others irrespective of evidence, misusing their authority. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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The Science is Settled — now just SHUT Up. Except, we aren’t shutting up. We can’t.

News
July 25, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Of course, there are orthodoxies and then there are smelly orthodoxies. COVID-19 created a situation where many more people than otherwise have discovered a really smelly orthodoxy in science. Prediction: More people will start asking more questions. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 25, 2021
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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The slow descent of “Science!” As in “Trust the Science!”

News
July 25, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Varadarajan: The World Health Organization is a particular offender: “We had a dozen Western scientists go to China in February and team up with a dozen Chinese scientists under the auspices of the WHO.” At a subsequent press conference they pronounced the lab-leak theory “extremely unlikely.” The organization also ignored Taiwanese cries for help with Covid-19 in January 2020. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 24, 2021
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Intelligent Design
theistic evolution
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Will Joshua Swamidass have the floor at Uncommon Descent?

News
July 24, 2021
Intelligent Design, theistic evolution
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We will print, at Uncommon Descent, whatever Dr. Swamidass wishes to say further on this interesting topic of disappearing articles. We’d also be happy to hear him address how he thinks Dr. Axe has misrepresented him. Hey, we’re listening. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 23, 2021
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Evolution
Intelligent Design
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Douglas Axe vs Joshua Swamidass…

News
July 23, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Axe: First and foremost, Swamidass dislikes the “confrontational approach” that he thinks I promote and exemplify, along with other ID proponents. In his words: “Doug Axe in Undeniable and also in the recent Crossway book on theistic evolution talks about how there’s a need to have a confrontational approach to evolutionary science.” Swamidass must be feeling threatened. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 23, 2021
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Is “string theory world” in some trouble?

News
July 23, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Some of us think string theory only existed in order to give a bizarre twist to the fine-tuning of our universe and to create a basis for believing that there is an uncountable infinity of universes out there instead. Apart from that, it may be hard to see much point. We shall see. Read More ›