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Worth watching: "It is not a genocide; it is a counterattack in a war."
This should be pushed far and wide. Watched in every college class in the U.S. Thank you @billmaher The moral confusion is gross. "It is not a genocide, it is a counterattack in a war...Gaza equals genocide is a lie, an easily provable lie (as I have argued from first hand The fact that so many democrats go along with it is to me the party's worse moment since they undid reconstruction after the civil war...words have meaning...genocide, kill or try to kill an entire people, you can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people including civilians die, that's every war..."
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Rebecca Goldstein's The Mattering Instinct named one of the Best Books of 2026 by Publishers Weekly. best-books.publishersweekly.com/pw/best-books/…
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"Goldstein, a philosopher and novelist, elegantly moves between philosophy and reportage for this revelatory consideration of how the desire to matter shapes both inner life and social values. In the process, she makes a moving case for the importance of honoring innate human worth in a frequently impersonal and fractured world."
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I Wouldn’t Hurt A Fly, explains Rebecca Newberger Goldstein (with an analysis of the concept of human dignity). @platobooktour rebeccanewbergergoldstein.substack.com/p/i-wouldnt-hu…
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Over the years Jerry Coyne has documented the deterioration of the magazine, such as here: whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/08/20/sci…
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Scientists & science journalists decry the public's rejection of science, but are oblivious to the major cause: the perception, sometimes correct, that scientists are just another political faction. Among the guiltiest perpetrators are the recent editors of Scientific American, who turned this once-beloved treasure into a left-wing propaganda rag. This absolutely does not justify the Trump administration's unconstitutional meddling, but the new owners are right to restore it to its mission of explaining science to Americans. The Nation reports on The Fall of “Scientific American” thenation.com/article/societ…
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I joined the APA as a postdoc, and resigned a few years ago. This article explains why: The Inmates Run the Asylum at the Psychological Association by @SwipeWright and @Hartz_PhD wsj.com/opinion/the-in… via @WSJopinion
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RT @sapinker: David Deutsch (@DavidDeutschOxf) and I discuss AGIs and subjectivity on the Joe Walker Podcast (@JosephNWalker):
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Have we already discovered everything? Emma Varvaloucas is in a position to explain that we haven’t. theprogressnetwork.substack.com/p/think-weve-d…
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Rumors of the death of global cooperation are greatly exaggerated. At Starmus, Jane Lubchenco explained how this year the High Seas Treaty protecting the world’s oceans went into effect. Even the US signed (though it has not yet ratified it).
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RT @sapinker: PANGBURN'S SYMPOSIUM I
PHILOSOPHY • SCIENCE • RELIGION • POLITICS
January 30–31, 2027 | San Francisco, California
In the spir…
PHILOSOPHY • SCIENCE • RELIGION • POLITICS
January 30–31, 2027 | San Francisco, California
In the spir…
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