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Jerry Coyne seems to be coming to terms with the Woke endgame

We wondered what Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne was doing recently besides being nice to cats (a very fine habit and the sign of a true gentleman). So this now…

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New podcast offers blatant heresy: Two plus two make four

James Lindsay, one of Peter Boghossian’s fellow hoaxers of the Woke folk, discusses the war on math in this podcast.

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One of Boghossian’s hoaxers started the Woke on the 2 plus 2 equals five drive?

Meanwhile, Lindsay has a blog keeping track of Woke folk and other unfunny crazies, where he says he himself might have started off the 2 + 2 = 5 crazy, intending only to explain to someone how the Woke think.

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Mike Egnor on what to do when the Woke come for you

It works well when dealing with Darwinists, too, he thinks.

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vividbleau JVL “ how can there be an objective, moral code when no one can agree on what it says “... – Is there such a thing as...
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Querius Origenes@12, The first cause cannot be ‘infinite’ (in some context). Since nothing encapsulates the first cause, nothing contextualizes the first... – Is Ethan Siegel’s Big Bang and...
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bornagain77 Whatever JVL, you apparently want to argue over disagreements some Christians have on morality rather than if objective morality exists... – Is there such a thing as...
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