Memo to the Smithsonian

1 percent myth, American Humanist Association, anti-American propaganda, Bill Nye, chimps, Daily Wire, disinformation, Donald Trump, genetic difference, Heritage Foundation, human beings, human exceptionalism, humans, ideology, Lonnie Bunch, Mike Gonzalez, museums, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Museum of American History, National Museum of Natural History, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Smithsonian Institution, Trump Administration, Uncategorized
We are trying to bring some reasonable pressure to bear on the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and its scientifically inaccurate displays. Source
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Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE

Bethesda (magazine), bioethics, censorship, COVID-19, DOGE, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, free speech, hormone injections, hysteria, ideology, innovation, Jay Bhattacharya, layoffs, Medicine, National Institutes of Health, PhD students, Reform, research funding, respondents, scientific debate, scientists, Trump Administration
Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them. Source
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Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

1. End Censorship and Political Interference in Science, accessibility, Culture & Ethics, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, federal employees, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorrff, minoritized, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protestors, protests, research funding, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities
“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Source
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How Stockholm Syndrome Christianity Hinders Scientific Progress

Bible, BioLogos Foundation, Charles Darwin, debate, disagreement, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, Faith & Science, faith and science, Francis Collins, free speech, ID The Future, ideology, John West, Podcast, scientific enterprise, scientific materialism, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, The Language of God, theistic evolution, theology, United States
In a nutshell, theistic evolution is the attempt to reconcile belief in God with the standard evolutionary account of life’s origins. Source
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The Humanity and Personhood of an Embryo

Alabama Supreme Court, biology, colon, Culture & Ethics, death, doctors, egg, embryos, fetuses, human beings, human rights, ideology, in vitro fertilization, independence, IVF, Judeo-Christian tradition, Medicine, newborn baby, newborns, personhood, petri dish, pregnancy, reproduction, right to life, sentience, sperm, Steven Novella, womb, Yale University, zygotes
A sperm and an egg separately constitute a potential human. But when they unite, the result is a human being from the moment of fertilization. Source
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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
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Woke Watch: The Ideological Transformation of Medical Journals

alarmists, biodiversity, climate hysteria, Conference of the Parties, Culture & Ethics, Dubai, emergency declarations, equity, experts, global warming, Guns, health, health journals, ideology, medical journals, Medicine, natural world, periodicals, planetary health, public health, Racism, technocracy, United Arab Emirates, World Health Organization
Now, the political alarm is over "planetary health," which covers a lot of, er, ground. Source
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As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist

atmosphere, authority, banks, Bernadette Rogers, carbon, Clark County, climate change, climate science, criminality, Culture & Ethics, Extinction Rebellion, fossil fuels, Gemini South Observatory, human thriving, ideology, Mosier, Nature (journal), nuclear power, objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, Physics, Earth & Space, traffic, trust
The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer's remarkable screed. Source
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5 Fatal Flaws in Transgender Ideology

Apologetics, Christianity, Culture, Culture CrossExamined, drag, ideology, Legislating Morality, Culture & Politics, LGBTQ, marriage, Politics, theology, trandsgender, Transgender, Transphobic
Many people who support transgender surgery and cross-sex hormones may be well-intentioned, but the transgender ideology behind those intentions is fraught with fatal flaws. Here are just five of many. Contrary to transgender ideology: 1. The Design of the Body Proves There are Only Two Genders Transgender advocates insist there are multiple genders. However, the design of the human body shows there are only two genders. Humans can either produce sperm or eggs. There is no third reproductive output in humans or mammals. Of course, there are humans who cannot produce either due to biological deficiencies, but that is an incapacity, not a thirdcapacity to produce something else. Thus, the claim that there are more than two genders can only be entertained if one detaches the concept of gender from biological…
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When “Science” Becomes a Cult

abortion, Bill Nye, biology, cult, dogma, double-talk, Douglas Axe, embryology, empirical science, Environmentalism, experimentation, Faith & Science, falsification, human rights, humanities, ideology, John Zmirak, Jonathan Wells, Marquis de Sade, materialistic philosophy, materialistic science, Moses, Nature (journal), nature rights, New Atheism, Pharaoh, political science, Politics, religion, sex, Simone de Beauvoir, The Stream, trust, Twitter, Wesley Smith
The problem comes when, in order to win our acceptance, double-talk is used to pretend that a cult is something other than what it is. Source
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