Tag: science
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Reexamining the Obama Era Endangerment Finding
by Paul Driessen, ©2025 (Mar. 30, 2025) — The supposed climate cataclysm consensus is disintegrating under growing pressure from reality. Green energy subsidies, regulations and mandates are crumbling. Greenpeace has been hit with a $667-million judgment for conspiracy, defamation, trespass, and fostering arson and property destruction. Last year’s “Buy a Tesla – save the planet”…
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Feeding Disease: The Case for Ending Government-Sponsored Sugar Addiction
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Mar. 23, 2025) — Imagine the government handing out coupons for cigarettes in the 1980s, even after the Surgeon General’s warning became a cultural touchstone. Now imagine we’re doing the dietary equivalent — today, knowingly — and funding it with public dollars. Welcome to SNAP in the age…
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To Win the Climate Debate, We Must Use The Same Tools That Were Used To Defeat Science and Common Sense
by Tom Harris, Executive Director, ICSC, ©2025 (Jan. 13, 2025) — One of the reasons conservatives have steadily lost power to the left over the past 50 years is because we have not made a proper study of the tools used against us. In an effort to help correct this situation, this is part one…
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Falling U.S. Test Scores Fuel Calls to Abolish Dept. of Education
by Family Research Council, New American Prophet, ©2024 (Dec. 9, 2024) — American schoolchildren’s math and reading scores saw “a marked decline” — again — falling further behind their own scores before the COVID-era lockdowns, trailing even more foreign nations, and fueling calls for President-elect Donald Trump to reform or abolish the Department of Education.…
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Rushed Science, Reckless Oversight: The Unseen Risks of RNA Injectables
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Dec. 3, 2024) — The rush to bring vaccines to market in response to the spread of SARS-CoV-2 across the globe left critical safety measures and scientific rigor as an afterthought. A new peer-reviewed study by researchers from the University Hospital of Würzburg, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,…
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An Urgent Call to All Scientists – We Must Reframe Scientific Priorities for the Future of America with A Unified Approach to Learning Well
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Oct. 27, 2024) — It is October 2024, and we face a crossroads. Science and medicine are represented as advancing at breakneck speed, but the way we fund and prioritize research is outdated, fragmented, and deeply flawed. We are chasing immediate results, throwing resources into short-term translational projects,…
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What Does it Mean for the Public to “Trust Science”?
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Sep. 18, 2024) — What does it indeed mean to have a society that “trusts science”? The phrase is invoked everywhere, from policy debates to media headlines, and it implies a near-universal reverence for scientific institutions like the NIH, NSF, and NASA. Yet, beneath this notion of trust…
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Scientists Silencing Science: The True Harm in Dismissing the Lab-Leak Hypothesis
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2024 (Aug. 26, 2024) — On August 1, 2024, a group of 41 authors published an article(1) asserting that promoting the lab-leak hypothesis for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 is harmful, branding such exploration as “anti-science” and devoid of evidence. These authors, many of whom hold significant influence in the…
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Yearning For the Good Old COVID Years
by Rob Pue, New American Prophet, ©2024 (Jun. 5, 2024) — The New World Order Globalists are deadly serious about their plans for rebuilding Babylon, and they’re not stopping. Their goal is a one-world government, with a single leader to rule the world. Of course, there are many underlings doing his bidding, already at work…
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Dr. Casey Means on Building a Metabolically Healthy Mind and Body
by Dr. Joseph Mercola, ©2024 (May 18, 2024) — Dr. Casey Means is a Stanford-trained physician and co-founder of Levels, a company focused on metabolic health. Means shifted her career from surgery to functional medicine after recognizing the potential to prevent chronic diseases through lifestyle and dietary changes. Her book, “Good Energy,” empowers people to…
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The University of Tennessee Uses Our Taxes to Advocate Radical Energy Agenda. I Took Them to Court!
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2024 (Apr. 16, 2024) — Over four years ago, someone sent me a November 2019 Huffington Post article titled “Coal Knew, Too” by Élan Young, a writer for the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of (UTK). The story, remarkably, also promptly appeared in Mother Jones,…
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In-Vitro Fetishisation
by Cauf Skiviers, Cultural Inappropriation, ©2024 (Mar. 9, 2024) — Quick note: It’s important to note that Marx’s concept of ‘commodity fetishism’ stands apart from, and does not rely on, his ‘theory of value’. This latter theory forms the basis for concepts such as ‘class struggle’ and ‘historical materialism.’ Interestingly, even some of Marx’s fiercest…
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Geological Discovery Upends Politically Correct Climate Science
by Tom Harris, ©2024 (Feb. 23, 2024) — Over the past few decades, one of the greatest mystery stories in the history of science has played out—trying to understand why changes in the output of the Sun, not human emissions of greenhouse gases, appears to be the primary driver of climate change on Earth. For…
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Don’t Forget the “Proximal Origins” Fraud that Covered Up My January 2020 Laboratory Origin Assertion
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023 (Dec. 30, 2023) — When I first proposed the lab origin of the SARS-Cov-2 virus in January of 2020, I did not expect those involved to double- and triple-down in their attempts to coverup the obvious. Incredibly, by March 2020, scientist from Shanghai and Beijing had already published…
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Climate Skeptics Win by Revealing Costs, Not Disputing Science
by William L. Kovacs, ©2023 (Dec. 20, 2023) — Part I discussed how the Progressive Left transitioned their climate strategy from one of oppressive regulations during the Obama administration to giving away massive amounts of money during the Biden administration. This policy change made all the difference in gaining general support from the American business…
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Free Speech Dissent in Science Matters: E.A.R.N.E.S.T. Principles Offer a Creed
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2023 (Oct. 21, 2023) — In a world increasingly polarized by misinformation and disinformation designed to protect profit-driven agendas, the integrity of scientific discourse stands at a crossroads: Either it will survive as a bastion of rationality and truth, or it will fall into the hands of those who…
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Cancel Culture Using the Pseudo-Ailment, Eco-anxiety, to Cure the Non-existence of Manmade Global Warming/Climate Change
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Sep. 26, 2023) — In 1972, at the First Earth Summit in Stockholm, the issue of climate change was raised for the first time on the world stage, “warning governments to be mindful of activities that could lead to climate change and evaluate the likelihood and magnitude of…
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Science, Agriculture, City Planning, and Global Control
by Kathleen Marquardt, American Policy Center, ©2023 (Aug. 6, 2023) — Science In an August 2022, National Library of Medicine article “Trust Me, I’m a Scientist, How Philosophy of Science Can Help Explain Why Science Deserves Primacy in Dealing with Societal Problems” by Stefaan Blancke and Maarten Boudry [1] starts out: “Modern democratic societies tend…
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We Are Not Built To Sit Behind a Computer
by Cauf Skiviers, Cultural Inappropriation, ©2023 (Jul. 30, 2023) — “In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?…
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The “C” Word
by Thomas Reiner, ©2023 (Jul. 25, 2023) — Congratulations for reading this far but the “C” Word is far from a congratulatory concept. It is the basis of a conglomeration of words forming a spine-chilling phrase that should make the rational, patriotic listener choke and run away. But enough of this onomatopoeia and let’s get…