Coping with Death Threats and Violence
Scientists who articulate evidence-based facts in response to media requests for comment are finding themselves facing harassment and threats
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Does Gay Conversion Therapy actually work?
Back in the days when I attended a pentecostal group as a teen, there was a guy who was deemed to have a bit of a problem, he was attracted to other guys. The church leaders kept it all lowkey and “assisted” by engaging the services of a gay conversion specialist. The net effect is … Read more
Official Tennessee COVID response: No Masks, just Prayer and Fasting
The title above sounds like satire. Sadly it is ever so real. The Republican Governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, has announced this … That whooshing sound was the concept of a wall of separation between church and state flying off over the horizon. If he is going to do this there there are a couple … Read more
The Scientific Answer: Is Smacking Children good or bad?
“Spare the rod & spoil the child” is a popular phrase to justify spanking. If we instead turn to scientific studies, then what will we find?
Christ and the Antichrist – Playing the Trump card
Trump is supposedly the anointed one, and Biden is asserted to be the Antichrist. What is the thinking here, where does it all come from?
Pew Poll: Who is and is not getting vaccinated and Why?
Pew released details of who is not getting vaccinated. I mull over why it is like this and offer some thoughts on how you can talk to them.