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Biologists have lately awoken to the news that their science makes them heretics in the postmodern imperium, and guilty of retailing the ideas most heretical to the progressive, constructivist, utopian-egalitarian worldview.
There is far more expression to be found in the Easter Island heads, than there is here.
The Republican running the session effortlessly fools the group into accepting facts that the audience (of smart liberals, of course) know to be lies.
I could bang on about offendotrons every week and have to resist the impulse.
What is Islam and how does it differ from Islamism? And is this a hard and fast distinction for the majority of Muslims?
How many people are in this “community”? What power do they enjoy? What is the extent of their influence?
“In fact, with the rise of the Offense Culture, the Left’s attacks on science have become more intense. Expect more of them.”
The reputation of the Nobel Prize has been tarnished by the scandals at the Swedish Academy in 2017–18, and the scientific and medical scandal caused by the fatal windpipe transplantations at Karolinska.
The real problem with this book is that, to Zimmer and many other people, genetics itself is the enemy.
Recognising that there is a problem is half the battle.
Factfulness identifies ten instincts we all share, which tend to over-dramatize the world as we see it.
Those already familiar with the deformations that these terms represent may take note of the supercilious attitude that permeates the turgid passages in which they appear.
Paying the Price draws on an unprecedented study that tracked the educational outcomes of 3,000 young adults that entered college in Wisconsin in 2008.
Dolan’s proposal is that shifting our attention away from constructed narratives to actual experiences is likely to make us a lot happier.