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Religion Dispatches
Every day brings a new tsunami of bullshit, a giant wave of lies flattening our discourse to sticks and rubble. The moment it seems that we might recover—find a moment’s peace for real thought—another…
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Religion Dispatches
Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential candidate, would like you to know that she believes vaccines are beneficial, unless they’re not. In addition, she believes that she has not seen…
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New York Times science columnist George Johnson had the epistemological grumps last week, about what he titled “The Widening World of Hand-Picked Truths.” It once seemed inevitable that science would…
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Collect all the evidence that vaccines cause autism and endanger children, and you will have a very, very thin file. Collect all the evidence that there’s an appeal to believing that vaccines cause…
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In case you haven’t heard, the measles are back. In a big way. Cases of measles have been on the increase in the last few years, and this month an outbreak now reaching at least 94 patients has been…
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A recent op-ed correctly compares the anti-science beliefs of creationists and the anti-vaccine movement, but the answer isn’t more facts.
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