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Wikipedia Bans Daily Mail as Source 0
- Culture
- February 10, 2017
On Feb. 4, the Daily Mail published an article headlined, “Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data.” The article centered on Dr. John Bates, a former NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) scientist who claimed to have “irrefutable evidence” the government used “unverified” data in a 2015 paper that
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Why We Should Stop Drugging Our Kids 5
- Culture
- February 10, 2017
Maybe it’s time to stop drugging our children. A new study from the Medical Journal of Australia has found that the youngest kids in any given class are twice as likely to be receiving medication for behavioral disorders as the older kids in the class. And the proportion of boys receiving such medication was three
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The FDA Carefully Manipulates the News You Receive 0
- Culture
- February 10, 2017
How “The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it,” said Neil deGrasse Tyson, the American astrophysicist and science communicator. Which is true as far as it goes; it doesn’t apply to press releases from scientists and science agencies. Jason Young, the US Food and Drug Administration’s acting
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Teacher: Busy Work is Killing Love for Reading 0
- Culture
- February 10, 2017
The other day, a judge used a unique punishment for a handful of teens who desecrated a historic school building with derogatory statements: read books. The novelty of the sentence testifies to the fact that kids simply don’t read very much anymore. But why this dearth of reading? After all, parents try to get kids
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Rational Discourse: Has Relativism Caused Its Decline?0
- Culture
- February 10, 2017
This morning a friend sent me a BBC video clip describing the common scenarios conservative students face on liberal campuses. At first blush, the quest to turn these students into victims – through scenes of furtive eyes and choked voices – seems to be the primary mission of the BBC. But cutting through the
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Entire Homeschooling Family Kidnapped by the State 0
- Culture
- February 10, 2017
Raising children is no walk in the park, but it’s even more difficult when the state dictates what you can and cannot do with your own family. Kiarre Harris is a devoted single mother, trying her hardest to provide her children with the best possible upbringing. After growing concerned that her children were not receiving
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Does Free Trade Lead to Freedom?0
- Economics
- February 10, 2017
In all normal civilisations the trader existed and must exist. But in all normal civilisations the trader was the exception; certainly he was never the rule; and most certainly he was never the ruler. The predominance which he has gained in the modern world is the cause of all the disasters of the modern world.
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Diversity Can Inhibit Learning and Cognitive Growth, Study Says 0
- Culture
- February 10, 2017
Diversity, like equality of opportunity, is one of those positively valued, ‘sacred cow’ concepts in higher education. Yes, some have criticized it for only encompassing racial, ethnic and gender identity, not ideological persuasion. Others have objected that diversity is a vehicle for brainwashing students with liberal values. Nevertheless, the concept has survived in almost every
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‘Anti-Civics’ Being Taught in U.S. Colleges, NAS Report says 0
- Education
- February 10, 2017
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” According to a recent report of the National Association of Scholars, this line (from Yeats’ apocalyptic poem The Second Coming) may be a fitting description of what kind of citizens are being produced by American universities today. The 525-page report—“Making Citizens: How
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