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A closeup of a scientist using AI to simulate climate change effects on a digital globe, suggesting environmental research, set against a softfocus background of a scientific institution, in clean look colors, enhanced by a sharpened banner
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Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Blessed Are the Peacemakers, for They Shall Be Called Bioethicists

Wesley J. Smith
August 12, 2024
Human Exceptionalism
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Reinforcing my earlier point, the Hastings Center has now published an utterly naive article advocating that war itself be transformed into a bioethics issue. True to form in the field, the authors propose six bioethical "principles" to apply to considering whether potential combatants should resort to war or make "wiser choices." Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
August 10, 2024
Discovery Institute
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Barbarous obliteration and invisible immortality

Marvin Olasky
August 10, 2024
Discovery Institute
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Victor David Hanson’s The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation (Basic, 2024) has chapters on the destruction of Thebes, Carthage, Constantinople, and Tenochtitlan that the author, or a good editor, should have abridged. Maybe the repetition, though, can drum into our heads a lesson we try to keep out: “Modern societies are not immune to the horror of Read More ›

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Michael Newton Keas
August 9, 2024
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The Gollum Effect: When Guarding Research Impedes Progress

Michael Newton Keas
August 9, 2024
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On this ID the Future out of the vault, host Andrew McDiarmid sits down with historian and philosopher of science Michael Keas to discuss a recent article at Times Higher Education, “My Precious! How Academia’s Gollums Guard Their Research Fields.” The article looks at how scientific progress is being impeded by a culture in which scientists jealously guard their research instead of sharing it. Keas says the problem seems to have gotten worse in recent years but isn’t a new one. He illustrates with the story of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Read More ›
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Marvin Olasky
August 9, 2024
Homelessness
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How Adverse Childhood Experiences Turn into Homelessness

Marvin Olasky
August 9, 2024
Homelessness
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Would you rather be rich or loved? Many of us might want to be both, but Rob Henderson, author of Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, understands what's most important: "For happiness, it's better to be poor and loved than rich and unloved." Read More ›
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Metaverse and kid concept, child using virtual reality headset in space adventure game. Little girl looking in futuristic VR glasses and having fun. Theme of technology, fantasy and playing people
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Doug Smith and Robert J. Marks II
August 8, 2024
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How to Rise Above Addictive Technologies to Find Real Freedom

Doug Smith and Robert J. Marks II
August 8, 2024
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a doctor holding a syringe ready to give a vaccine injection
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Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024
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Richard Weikart Reads From His New Book Unnatural Death

Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024
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On this episode, Dr. Richard Weikart reads selections from his new book Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing. Dr. Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History at California State University Stanislaus and a Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & Culture. He is author of From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion and The Death of Humanity. Dr. Weikart begins with a portion from the book’s Introduction, which sets the stage and defines some key terms used in the book. Weikart concludes with an excerpt from Chapter 3: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics, where he gets into the influence of Darwinism on eugenics ideology and how it shaped attitudes toward euthanasia and assisted suicide in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›
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Richard Vigilante and George Gilder
August 7, 2024
Economics
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Israel: Leader of the Free World

Richard Vigilante and George Gilder
August 7, 2024
Economics
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For eight decades after the end of World War Two, America's proudest title was "Leader of the Free World." Today, that title properly belongs to Israel both on grounds of practical leadership and grasp of what it means to be a free people. Read More ›