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24May 2025 by Post

“Nature Rights” Hits the Big Time

Alfred Kobacker and Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, anti-humanism, bioethics, China, ecosystems, endangered species, enforcement, glaciers, habitats, human exceptionalism, human rights, human thriving, humankind, International Day for Biological Diversity, lawfare, Life Sciences, mountain, National Geographic Society, nature rights, rivers, waves

The National Geographic Society — one of the world’s largest and most influential science organizations — is going to pour money into the movement. Source

19Mar 2025 by Post

Princeton Scholars Deliver Hard Truths About Covid Policies

Benefits, bioethics, China, COVID-19, disease, epidemiologists, Frances Lee, harms, Italy, laptop class, lockdowns, Medicine, pandemic, political scientists, Princeton University, Princeton University Press, progressives, Sara Talpos, Stephen Macedo, tunnel vision, World Health Organization

Princeton political scientists Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee have just published a book highly critical of COVID pandemic policies. Source

20Dec 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: Nakridletia — The Rise and Fall (and Possible Resurrection) of a Fossil Insect Order

aquatic flies, biology, China, Daohugou site, Darwinian theory, ectoparasites, Evolution, fleas, forewings, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, gyroscopes, holometabolan insects, insects, Intelligent Design, Middle Jurassic, mouthparts, Nakridletia, paleontology, parasites, parasitic insects, pincers, pterosaurs, scorpionflies, Strashila incredibilis, Strashilidae, strashilids, Vosilidae, wings

So, were strashilids a distinct order of parasitic insects or just aquatic flies? Source

15Nov 2024 by Post

Fossil Friday: New Research on How Delicate Soft-Bodied Organisms Can Be Perfectly Preserved

arthropods, bacterial decay, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Doolittle Walcott, China, clay mineralogy, Devonian Hunsrück Shale, digestive tracts, Emu Bay Shale, Evolution, eyes, Fossil Friday (series), fossils, Intelligent Design, Kangaroo Island, Karl Popper, microbes, mudslides, paleontologists, paleontology, preservation, South Australia, taphonomic processes, Theodosius Dobzhansky, turbidites, Waptia fieldensis

All the just-so-stories of macroevolution are completely dispensable in real (experimental) biology. Source

22Sep 2024 by Post

Pond Scum Is Our Equal: That’s Nature Rights for You

China, Climate Week, Culture & Ethics, earth goddess, fossil fuels, grass, human race, human thriving, Life Sciences, Luddism, mining, mosquitoes, natural gas, nature rights, nonhuman beings, Pachamama, pipeline construction, pond scum, resources, Rights of Nature Tribunal, scallops, self-loathing, squirrels, trees

Now, a “tribunal” will be held in New York to promote the rights of nature and undermine public support for fossil fuels. Source

01Aug 2024 by Post

Icelanders Nominated a Glacier for President to Push “Nature Rights” Movement

China, climate change, Cody Skahan, Columbia University, Culture & Ethics, Ecuador, glaciers, Iceland, Mark Carey, nature rights, Panama, personhood, Physics, Earth & Space, pollution, river rights, Snæfellsjökull, University of Oregon

Here is a story on “nature rights” activism that, on first impression, leaves one bemused. Source

16Dec 2023 by Post

This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After…Capitalism

Australian National University, Big Fossil Fuels, capitalists, China, climate change, commercialism, Culture & Ethics, Economics, fossil fuels, free market, government, health, health equity, ideology, India, Iran, medical journals, Medicine, natural resources, Politics, progressive politics, prosperity, Sharon Friel, The Lancet, Turkey, Vietnam, wokeness

Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Source

08Oct 2023 by Post

How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

academic freedom, Allysia Finley, Anthony Fauci, Ashley Rindsberg, Breakthrough Institute, China, City Journal, climate science, COVID-19, Emily Kopp, First Amendment, free speech, gain-of-function research, Internet, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, media, Medicine, Mind Matters, News Media, Patrick Brown, Paul Thacker, science media, skepticism, Stanford University, Tablet, Wall Street Journal, Wuhan

Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Source

06Oct 2023 by Post

Fossil Friday: A Popular Just-So Story on the Origin of Bird Flight Bites the Dust

adaptation, aerodynamics, arboreal hypothesis, avian flight, birds, China, Chukar partridge, computer modelling, Confuciusornis, cursorial hypothesis, empirical data, Evolution, flapping, Flight, forelimb, Fossil Friday, fossil record, ichthyosaur, kinematics, Liaoning, mechanics, muscles, paleontology, powered flight, storytelling, WAIR hypothesis, wing-assisted incline running, wings

There is a long-running about whether birds first took off by running and flapping from the ground up, or whether they jumped as gliders from the tree down. Source

17Sep 2023 by Post

Slavery and the Image of God

abolitionists, Arabs, Charles Finney, China, Christianity, Civil War, Culture & Ethics, Enlightenment, Evangelical Christians, Faith & Science, For the Glory of God, Gregory of Nyssa, image of God, Native Americans, Oberlin College, religious revivals, Rodney Stark, safe houses, Second Great Awakening, slaveholders, slavery, Underground Railroad, United States

America is the only country on Earth to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a war to end slavery. Source

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