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Theodore Dalrymple

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 10, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
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Theodore Dalrymple on what the heck has happened to the New England Journal of Medicine

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Naturalism
If you still think science can’t get “woke” (and croak), author and retired psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple would ask you to consider the NEJM Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 4, 2018
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Terror of Existence: Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer loved, then loathed, Darwinism

Denyse O'Leary
November 4, 2018
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design

Last Sunday we noted a new book by psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, and writer Ken Francis, The Terror of Existence: From Ecclesiastes to Theatre of the Absurd. They tackle the same topics in twin essays, as a Christian and an agnostic. Francis kindly sends us an excerpt from one of his essays featuring Jeffrey Dahmer (1960-1994), murderer and cannibal: One of the worst terrors of existence is the fear of being murdered or badly tortured. We read endless stories of homicide, both fact and fictional, and the ones that spook us most are those carried out by the psychopath. The Moors Murders in the UK during the 1960s were perhaps the most disturbing story of the slaying of innocent children by Read More ›