I have written about this before—the phenomenon of political or ideological advocacy masking as objective scientific studies and then published in prestigious medical and other professional journals. (So have others who I admire.) Ironically, in the post I link above, I quoted an article . . . . Continue Reading »
Japan’s system of health care boasts of universal coverage and free screenings. But there seems to be trouble brewing in the Land of the Rising Sun exemplified by the tragedy of a patient with serious head injuries dying after he was refused care by 14 hospitals because there was no room for . . . . Continue Reading »
The task of fervent atheists just got harder . But I suppose their work’s cut out for them . . . if religion is hard-wired in the brain, then one just needs to figure out how to tamper with the wires, right? If nothing else, there’s always faith in Progress! . . . . Continue Reading »
To add to Amanda ‘s list of calculations, $1 trillion is more than $1 million spent per day since Christ’s birth . . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher calls attention to an essay by Michael Brendan Dougherty , who asks pointed questions about the failure of the thirty-six year old pro-life movement to make any significant gains against a regime of unrestricted abortion. Dougherty’s essay strikes a long and resonant chord with me: . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s 1.1 times ten to the twelfth power, or 1,100,000,000,000. To put that in perspective, the Family Research Council has pulled out a calculator and crunched some numbers . With $1.1 trillion, the grand total so far of Obama’s stimulus plan, we could pave the entire US interstate . . . . Continue Reading »
Yet another media biggie has written an article about the crisis in newspapers—which is all too real—and missed a huge reason for the problem. There must be a template circulating for these kind of articles, because it reflects the media’s notorious “group-think” by . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember those atheist bus ads, the ones saying something to the effect of “There’s probably no God, now stop worrying and have a nice day”? Well now you can make your own . (via our managing editor of blessed memory on his Strange Herring blog) . . . . Continue Reading »
Zoe Lewis reflects today at the Times of London on her waning commitment to the feminist movement: I never thought I would be saying this, but being a free woman isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Is that the rustle of taffeta I hear as the suffragettes turn in their graves? Possibly. My . . . . Continue Reading »
At this morning’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama addressed the audience: “Far too often, we have seen faith wielded as a tool to divide us from one another—as an excuse for prejudice and intolerance,” President Obama says. “Wars have been waged. Innocents . . . . Continue Reading »
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