Did Fauci and Collins Receive Royalty Payments from Drug Companies?

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Transparency of the government science establishment should raise concerns. Congressional oversight is warranted. Source
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Fact Check: Yes, Human Life Begins at Fertilization

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So what are we to make of a scientific profession in which scientific experts consistently distort the science of human life? Source
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Ecuador’s Highest Court Grants Rights to Wild Animals

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Nature rights apply to individual animals. And, one would assume, to be consistent, to individual plants, insects, water, and (what the hell) germs too. Source
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Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

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One of the most famous instances was Carrie Buck, sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Source
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Darwinism and Scientific Totalitarianism: John West’s Darwin Day in America

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The afterword, on “Totalitarian Science,” published in 2015, shows John West as a prophet of things to come. Source
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David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism

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We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought. Source
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