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Of Solar Energy and Amateurish Agitprop at Fox News
Reading the “news” can be a painful experience in our time. Most of it consists of a blend of sensationalism, human interest stories, accounts of the lives of various vapid celebrities, and attempts...
View Article“Dangerous” by Milo Yiannopoulos; A Review
Back in February the legacy media was gloating over the demise of Milo Yiannopoulos. Apparently the Left’s faux outrage machine had successfully smeared him over some unguarded comments he made about...
View ArticleThe “Islamophobia” of Richard Dawkins; Have We Reached Peak Insanity Yet?
KPFA radio in Berkeley recently invited Richard Dawkins to discuss his latest book, Science in the Soul: Collected Writings of a Passionate Rationalist.” Now, however, he has been disinvited. The...
View Article“Milo News,” Jerry Coyne, and Infant Euthanasia
Prof. Jerry Coyne recently posted an article on his Why Evolution is True website defending euthanasia for severely deformed or doomed infants. This provoked a predictable enraged response from right...
View ArticleThe Damore Affair and the Ghost of the Blank Slate
So you thought the Blank Slate was dead, did you? Check out this post about the Damore affair by Jerry Coyne at his Why Evolution is True website: Salon disses dismisses Google memo as “biological...
View ArticleOn the Need to Suppress Freedom of Speech in the Interest of “Moral Progress”
In my last post I noted that, objectively speaking, there can be no such thing as “moral progress,” and that pursuing such a nonexistent thing as a goal is potentially dangerous. The reasons for this...
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Twitter suspends hbd chick
As her moniker would imply, hbd chick writes about human biodiversity, and many other topics in the arts and sciences that interest her. She used to run a great blog, but it became inactive because of...
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Der Spiegel and the Relotius Affair
In case you’re reading this on another planet, the Relotius Affair is a particularly egregious instance of Fake News. Claas Relotius was a star reporter for Der Spiegel, the number one German news...
View ArticleOf Intellectuals, Ideology, and Ingroups
I’ve written much about the ingroup/outgroup aspect of human nature. It would be difficult to exaggerate its importance. If you’re not aware of it, you will never understand the species Homo sapiens....
View ArticleThe Atlantic Monthly Ponders: Where Will It End?
Today we are witnessing extreme examples of moral nihilism. By moral nihilism I mean the concoction of novel “moral laws” in rapid succession, combined with the expection and demand that everyone else...
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