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Denyse O'Leary
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February 25, 2021
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At American Thinker: Science reporting is one of the saddest casualties of the schools of journalism

Denyse O'Leary
February 25, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Okay, but many papers can’t be replicated and many journals have gone Woke too. So it may not matter as much as Arvay thinks. Maybe it doesn’t matter much that the reporting is just as bad as the studies. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 7, 2021
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Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
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At Snopes: Creationism “bears all the hallmarks of a conspiracy theory”

Denyse O'Leary
February 7, 2021
Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
Curiously, Snopes admits, regarding the piece from The Conversation, “This content is shared here because the topic may interest Snopes readers; it does not, however, represent the work of Snopes fact-checkers or editors.” So… they can get away with publishing this kind of thing because they did not check it out? That is further evidence that Snopes is going downhill fast as a rumor squelching site. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 4, 2021
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Mathematics, Media, Science
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Rob Sheldon responds to News’s recent Salvo article, “War on Math”

Denyse O'Leary
January 4, 2021
Mathematics, Media, Science
Sheldon: Talking to a retired St Louis public high school math teacher, the battle was first enjoined 30 years ago over Geometry--eliminating it from the curriculum. Why? Because it was the only course that taught logic, he said. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 26, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Pushback at StatNews against politicizing science. Rob Sheldon weighs in

Denyse O'Leary
October 26, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Sheldon: The editors of Science and Nature compromised their scientific objectivity years ago. They promoted papers that big pharma wanted, they suppressed papers that made big pharma look bad. They were complicit in the coverup of not just tobacco and sugar lobbies, but vaccines and Darwinism and global warming... So of course this produced cognitive dissonance, since it violated some of the very basic tenets of objective science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 5, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, speciation
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The Economist: Hybrids have “upturned” evolutionary theory

Denyse O'Leary
October 5, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, speciation
At The Economist: "These findings muddy Darwin’s concept of speciation as a slow and gradual process. Biologists now know that in the right circumstances, and with the help of hybridisation, new species can emerge and consolidate themselves in a mere handful of generations. That is an important amendment to evolutionary theory. " Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 20, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Media
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J. R. Miller vid faces YouTube restrictions

Denyse O'Leary
September 20, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Media
In a world where Netflix is streaming a show about underage sexpots, it’s hard to imagine what the Valley’s problem with this stuff could be. But a friend suggests that at roughly the 7-minute mark, the discussion turns to anti-Christian bias in Google search and recommends—whoops!— alternative services. Okay, so LIKE the vid and find a non-Google search service. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 27, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Could COVID-19 help us understand the current buzz in science media about space aliens?

Denyse O'Leary
July 27, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
It’s worth noting that we haven’t established that there are even fossil bacteria on Mars. But we are starting to hear more than ever that there are intelligent aliens out there, most recently from Ars Technica and Scientific American. Fundamentally, we have found nothing since the Sixties that truly suggests extraterrestrial civilizations. Nothing. If they want to keep looking, fine. Nobody’s stopping them. But spare us the dramatics. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
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Multiverse physicist Max Tegmark switches gears; seeks AI to combat “news bias”

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
Readers may recall him from the four levels of multiverse he advocated in Scientific American in 2003. But forget that. He now thinks there is too much bias in American media and he is working on an AI program to combat it Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 15, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
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ID folk know a fair bit about how Cancel Culture works

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media
As more and more normal people are Canceled for doing normal things, it will become progressively clearer that the nasties of Cancel Culture are at direct odds with the welfare of any normal enterprise they attach themselves to, whether it is a newspaper or a science. Finally, one must choose between catering to them and tending to the welfare of the enterprise. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 5, 2020
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Jonathan McLatchie has a new website

Denyse O'Leary
July 5, 2020
Media

Here: Featuring articles like “The secular vs. sacred distinction: Is it valid? I believe the distinction between the secular and the sacred to be a valid one, although they do to an extent overlap and it is a mistake to draw a sharp dichotomy between the two spheres. Unfortunately, our culture and even the church has been conditioned to view these two spheres as being mutually exclusive. Furthermore, in the United States, which has a constitutionalized separation of church and state, the secular and sacred are routinely pitted against one another in the public square.