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Only Doctors Can Prevent Global Warming

Science, medical, and bioethics journals are setting themselves up as the new political resistance to Trump policies, most particularly around global warming controversies. JAMA has just published a column decrying Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and claiming that preventing climate change is now up to doctors. Read More ›
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DOGE Requires Rethinking, Reform and New Initiatives Before US Debt Market Collapses

That DOGE is routing out all this fraud and misallocation of resources is good and necessary, but like the withdrawal that the drug addict goes through to get healthy, the United States may have to pass through extraordinary pain and upheaval to regain stability and genuine economic health. And as DOGE digs up and uncovers more, and this truth comes out, investor confidence in the U.S. debt market may get rocked. Read More ›
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Swiss Canton Liberates Suicide Tourism from Police Investigation

Switzerland is the world's suicide tourism capital. Indeed, for the price of transportation and about $11,000, you can be helped to make yourself dead at one of the country's notorious suicide clinics. It used to be that each such assisted suicide had to be at least cursorily investigated by the authorities. But now, that minimal protection has been gutted. Read More ›
Francis Collins and the Temptation of Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

Francis Collins and the Temptation of Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

Over the past 15 years, Francis Collins has been one of the most powerful scientists in America. He also is the most recognized evangelical Christian scientist in America. In this presentation based on his new book Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, Dr. John West critically examines Collins’ public record in a variety of areas at the intersection of faith, morality, and science. Read More ›

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Rearview of the university graduates line up for degree award in university graduation ceremony. The university graduates are gathering in the university graduation ceremony. Crowd of the graduates.
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President Trump, Please Staple (Conditional) Green Cards to Graduate Degrees

In June 2024, presidential candidate Donald J. Trump said: "You graduate from a college, I think you should get, automatically as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. That includes junior colleges, too." Trump's comments, which were an entry in the ongoing and recently intensified debate on the right about immigration, tapped into a truth. Read More ›
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Group of homeless people warming themselves by a fire, winter underpass at night.
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Mixed Messages of Hope