The effort to ‘decolonise’ science is misguided, says Dr John Staddon, a former professor at Duke. The reason women and people of colour are under-represented in science has nothing to do with bias or discrimination.
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Politics Professor James Alexander identifies a single line in Patrick Vallance's diaries that reveals the twisted logic behind the lockdown policy.
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Next up in the long list of debates is the popular Hitchens Vs D’Souza debate over the existence of God. It’s another debate I have not yet seen, but if any of the other debates are an indicator, my hopes are not very high. I don’t know D’Souza’s approach but I assume it will be […]
Jay and Tristan discuss the meaning of technocracy in the “greatest logician ever,” the psycho Bertrand Russell. Must see interview! We cover the similarities to Plato’s Republic mentioned in Impact of Science on Society, the outright contradictions of Russell’s anti-Christian polemic, the absurdity of quantum nonsense and David Hume’s dilemma, the use of government and […]
Impromptu chat – Jimbob asked me to hop on his IG livestream as he fields questions from his audience on monism, dualism, pantheism, deism and Aristotle, the peripatetic axiom, basic empiricism and modern new atheists, David hume and Ayn Rand, natural law and Mark Passio, and much more!
Tonight we will examine the introductory elements of Aristotle and consider how he was highly influential on the Eastern fathers, especially St. Maximos and St. John of Damascus. Together with the Neoplatonists, we want to uncover the delicate balance of ferreting out pagan assumptions from truth. Fr Dcn. Dr. Ananias can be found here. Tonight at 5PM CST!
As if Prime Minister David Cameron hasn’t got enough problems, the promised referendum allowing Scotland to vote on whether people want independence from the rest of the United Kingdom looms ever closer, and some polls show that the gap between the Yes and No camps is closing. It will be a tight race come September.
