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20Jun 2021 by Post

Turning Our Dead into Fertilizer

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These methods send a powerful symbolic statement that we are essentially nothing more than carbon atoms gathered temporarily in a rational and animated form. Source

13Jun 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Male Rat Give Birth

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Scientists just took a big step toward making that once unthinkable prospect — biological males giving birth — a reality. Source

09Jun 2021 by Post

Erika DeBenedictis and the Cost of Playing God

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I won’t recap the splendid work Emily Reeves has already done here in dissecting the TEDx talk from a scientific angle. Source

27May 2021 by Post

PETA Wrong Again: Milk Is Good for Your Heart

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I have no complaint against people who refrain from consuming animal products. Making choices based on one’s moral view is an aspect of human exceptionalism. Source

22May 2021 by Post

Anti-Meat Propaganda Flops as Chicken Consumption Soars

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Me? I don’t care what people eat. That’s a personal choice — kind of like taking the COVID vaccine should be. Source

02May 2021 by Post

Listen: Richard Weikart Reviews a New Book on Social Darwinism

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The book paints Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little influence on Hitler’s master race ethic. Source

27Apr 2021 by Post

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Source

17Apr 2021 by Post

Scientists Make Human-Monkey Hybrid Embryos

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They said they wouldn’t do it, but of course they did. Scientists working in China — where else? — have constructed embryos that are part human and part monkey. Source

14Apr 2021 by Post