Theodore Dalrymple – Uncommon Descent

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Theodore Dalrymple on what the heck has happened to the New England Journal of Medicine

If you still think science can’t get “woke” (and croak), author and retired psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple would ask you to consider the NEJM

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Terror of Existence: Cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer loved, then loathed, Darwinism

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), Read More…

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