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Now we have scientists predicting a new age of cooling, pointing out that Arctic ice is growing, not shrinking, and it all has to do with ocean currents, not man-made activity. Human caused global warming increasingly is seen as an over-statement, at the least. Without open debate, who knows? Scientific hype is found in medicine, too, with repeated dire warnings about Read More ›

President Obama’s supporters are making much of how the Bush administration treated 2001 shoe-bomber Richard Reid the same way that the Flight 253 Christmas bomber has been treated: arrest, indictment, and trial in civilian criminal court. In doing so they in fact continue to perpetuate a deep division that dates back to the first days after September 11, 2001, between Read More ›

As we come to the end of the first tenth of the 21st century, pundits are making lists about the decade just past: the biggest stories, the worst movies. In that spirit, here’s a list of the top ten stories in bioethics. This isn’t an idle exercise. Bioethics matters. The field exerts tremendous influence over the most important questions of Read More ›

Legacy utility regulation threatens new technological opportunities and economic efficiencies which, according to others, promise a direct economic stimulus of at least $3.3 billion in Georgia over the next five years in the form of lower prices for voice services, plus an additional $3.9 billion in economic impact annually from increased broadband availability and use – including over 70,000 new jobs per year.

This article, published by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, references Discovery Institute Senior Fellow George Gilder: That windfall will come in a few ways, according to tech guru George Gilder, whose 2000 book “Telecosm” foresaw the past decade’s communications technology revolution, and who was in Atlanta Thursday to talk about tech’s future. The rest of the article can be found here.

Labour has been running behind the Conservatives in British popularity polls, though lately the Tories have been fading a bit. But that was before a record-breaking and determined blast of cold and snow descended on the Sceptered Isle, and before the taciturn Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, failed to find the weather very invigorating. Mr. Brown’s reported response is a classic: “I think Read More ›

Link to Talk Senior Fellow Wesley J. Smith spoke recently to the University of Texas’ Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies as part of its Medical Ethics Lecture Series. Click on the link above to watch his talk.

Chris Mooney is a partisan author (The Republican War on Science) and a leftist political advocate. He has made a career of pushing ideological goals as if they were objective scientific agendas. And of course many science journalists–often in name only–have followed his lead, particularly in the fields of global warming and embryonic stem cell research, which I deal with, and Read More ›

This article, published by the Catholic Education Resource Center, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Wesley Smith: Attorney and bioethics author Wesley Smith was first introduced to Koontz’s work following the publication of the novel One Door Away From Heaven. In that book, one of the storylines focuses on a bioethicist who sets out to breed disabled people so that he can Read More ›