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Michael Cook

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  • The Twisted Optimism of the Miserabilists

    The Twisted Optimism of the Miserabilists0

    With deaths mounting, economies tanking and unemployment growing, it’s hard to see anything positive in the coronavirus pandemic – other than rehearsing for something worse down the pike. However, optimism flourishes in odd places. In fact, some people batten on the misery of a world in turmoil. Here are a few miserabilists who see a

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  • Viktor Frankl: Saying Yes to Life in Difficult Times

    Viktor Frankl: Saying Yes to Life in Difficult Times0

    Man’s Search for Meaning is one of the most powerful arguments for human dignity of the 20th Century. The author is Viktor Frankl, an Austrian psychiatrist and a Jew, who spent about three years in concentration camps, including Auschwitz. His father, mother, brother and his pregnant wife all perished in the camps. Frankl was astonishingly

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  • Kids Benefit From Seeing Euthanasia Close Up, Says Canadian Doctor

    Kids Benefit From Seeing Euthanasia Close Up, Says Canadian Doctor0

    Bedside gatherings at Canadian euthanasia deaths are normally an adults-only affair. Of course we’re not privy to most of them, but occasionally a journalist describes the last moments of an elderly man or woman in a magazine feature. Sometimes there’s a party, glasses of champagne, hilarity – until the doctor arrives. The friends and relatives gather around the bed

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  • Twitter Piles on Richard Dawkins Over Eugenics Tweet

    Twitter Piles on Richard Dawkins Over Eugenics Tweet0

    Twitter may not be the best medium for explaining the science of eugenics to a wary public, as the sometime Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford, Richard Dawkins, discovered this week. Professor Dawkins, now aged 78, renowned as an evolutionary biologist and as the author of best-sellers about genetics

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