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Nicholas Wade

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 12, 2023
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Trust the Science! chronicles: The origin of COVID and Wuhan

Denyse O'Leary
February 12, 2023
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Wade: Virologists like Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 22, 2022
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Books of interest, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
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At City Journal: Review of book attempting to scuff out the lab leak theory re COVID-19

Denyse O'Leary
October 22, 2022
Books of interest, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Science
Wade: "The lab at Wuhan, where researchers were manipulating Covid-type viruses, received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Could Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, the NIH’s senior officials, have had any possible motive for suppressing their experts’ initial conclusion that the Covid virus was probably artificial?" Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 23, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Another, more nuanced, look at the Rosalind Franklin story

Denyse O'Leary
July 23, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
We’ve all heard the story, probably: That Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) should have shared the Nobel Prize for the double helix with Francis Crick (1916–2004) and James Watson. Science writer Nicholas Wade has gone into the story in considerable detail and finds to be much more complex. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 21, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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At last someone is asking: Why are science reporters so credulous?

Denyse O'Leary
March 21, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Another way of putting it is that too many people are — at best — naive about government-led and government-funded science. And science writers can make a living out of avoiding realities and catering to their illusions while retaining a sense of impeccable righteousness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 18, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Jerry Coyne: Darwinians do SO bash eugenics!

Denyse O'Leary
March 18, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
We accept that Coyne and his friends didn’t find Nicholas Wade’s views congenial. But wasn’t he one of the pop science gang? Could some Darwinians possibly shed some light on his retirement book party and then sudden submergence? Read More ›