What No One Ever Told You About the History of Iran with Bill Federer

Bill Federer, Christian Apologetics, Christianity, Dr. Frank Turek, Iran, Iran history, Islamic Revolution Iran, Middle East history explained, morality, philosophy, Podcast, religion, theology
After 47 years, is a regime change in Iran finally on the horizon? Or are we about to repeat history yet again? As tensions rise and the U.S. and Israel work to counter the Ayatollah’s nuclear ambitions, many Americans know the danger but not the backstory. In this episode, Frank sits down with historian Bill Federer to explain the “why” behind the war, trace Iran’s journey from ancient Persia to the Islamic Revolution, and uncover the historical forces that shaped today’s Middle East. Tune in as they answer questions like: What happened when Frank traveled to Tehran in 2006? What is the ancient history of Iran (previously known as Persia)? What’s the difference between Shia and Sunni Islam? What was the Islamic “Golden Age” and who brought it to an…
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Watchdog Group Calls Professor Dave “Anti-Semite of the Week”; Plus an Appeal to the New Atheists

anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, beheadings, colonizers, Dave Farina, Evolution, evolutionists, Hamas, Holocaust deniers, IDF, insults, Intelligent Design, Iran, Israel, Jerry Coyne, Jewish people, Judaism, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Shermer, New Atheists, Palestinians, pogrom, Professor Dave Explains, rape, Richard Dawkins, science educator, StopAntisemitism, terrorists, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Why Evolution Is True, YouTube videos, Zionism, Zionist State
Does this have anything to do with intelligent design and the evolution debate? Yes, two things. 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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Don’t Forget Scientific Fraud

Anaesthesia (journal), China, Daniele Fanelli, Egypt, fraud, health, India, Iran, Japan, John Carlisle, London School of Economics, Medicine, Netherlands, Reason (magazine), relatives, Research, Richard Smith, science, Science and Engineering Ethics, scientists, South Korea, The BMJ, Turkey
“I’ve done the research. I have the facts.” Thus said two people to me on successive days over the weekend, in almost identical words. Source
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Happy New Year! #1 Story of 2020: Biology Journal Demands Government Censorship of ID

Andrew Moore, BioEssays, CDC, censorship, COVID-19, Dave Speijer, democracy, Dennis Prager, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, Facebook, Federal Government, free speech, Intelligent Design, Internet, Iran, Italy, Karl Popper, Paul Nelson, regulation, schools, search engines, Social media, South Korea, Thomas Paine, University of Amsterdam, vaccine, White House
What if major technology companies shy from censorship? Then the government should take aggressive action: “Make them.” Source
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The COVID Crisis and Our Healthcare System

borders, boroughs of New York, China, COVID-19, elderly people, Europe, experts, government planners, healthcare, Iran, Italy, Manhattan, mass transit, Medicine, mortality, New York City, nursing homes, officials, pandemic, patients, prisons, Queens, socialism, Staten Island, statism, United States, Venezuela, Wuhan, xenophobia
An essay by a pair of economists in Foreign Policy magazine pins the blame for our pandemic crisis on deficiencies in our health care system. It recommends a variety of interventions, each of which (predictably) entails more government control of health care by experts like… the authors of the essay. To see the COVID response as signifying a failure of the healthcare system is an insult to the brave and skilled people who responded so effectively to this virus, including colleagues at my own hospital on New York’s corona frontline. The authors, and others who think similarly, misunderstand the roots of the crisis and misunderstand the role the health care system has played. More importantly, they misunderstand the role of statism in generating this pandemic.  Retooled Overnight Given the unexpected…
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