President Trump sat down for a lighthearted Father&#8217;s Day-themed video interview with his son Donald Trump Jr., who promptly &#8220;went there.&#8221;
&#8220;Before you leave office, will you let us know if there are aliens? Because this is the only thing I really want to know. I want to know what&#8217;s going on. Would you ever open up Roswell and let us know what&#8217;s going on there?&#8221; Trump Jr. asked in the video produced by Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign.
&#8220;So many people ask me that question,&#8221; the president said. &#8220;There are millions and millions of people that want to go there, that want to see it. I won&#8217;t talk to you about what I know about it but it&#8217;s very interesting. But Roswell is a very interesting place with a lot of people that would like to know what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
When Trump Jr. pushed his father on whether he will ever declassify information about Roswell, the president said, &#8220;I&#8217;ll have to think about that one.&#8221;
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Roswell, New Mexico, is the site of an alleged 1947 crash that spurred conspiracy theories about an alien spacecraft.  Residents claim they saw a &#8220;flying disc,&#8221; but the U.S. military claimed that it was merely a conventional weather balloon &#8212; at least at the time. In the 1990s, the military said the crashed object was a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul, a top-secret project by the U.S. Army Air Forces in which microphones flown on high-altitude balloons to try to detect sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests.
Reports of UFOs have circulated for years. Earlier this year, the Pentagon declassified footage showing &#8220;unidentified aerial phenomena&#8221; of military encounters with other aircraft that behaved in a way that one pilot told the New York Times was &#8220;like nothing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-interesting-details-on-roswell-as-son-grills-him-about-aliens">Fox News</a> reported.
<blockquote>&#8220;After a thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems, and does not impinge on any subsequent investigations of military air space incursions by unidentified aerial phenomena,&#8221; a Pentagon spokeswoman said about the footage&#8217;s release.
&#8220;DOD is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos,” she added. “The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as ‘unidentified.’”</blockquote>
In the father-son interview, Trump Jr. also asked the president if he is considering a pardon for &#8220;Tiger King&#8221; star Joseph Maldonado-Passage, AKA Joe Exotic. Trump was noncommittal, but did say he had seen some episodes of the show and he called Exotic &#8220;quite a character&#8221; and said, &#8220;that&#8217;s a whole strange deal.&#8221;
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Several top scientific journals have published editorials in the past week accusing their own fields of systemically oppressing black people.
The editorial boards of the journals <a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30740-6">Cell</a> and <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2021693">New England Journal of Medicine</a> (NEJM) and the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/08/science.abd1896?rss=1">Science Magazine</a> criticized the lack of diversity in their own publications and fields, blaming the “systemic racism” of the United States. All published articles suggesting reforms to make their areas more equitable and pledging to be more cognizant of their own implicit biases.
“We are the editors of a science journal, committed to publishing and disseminating exciting work across the biological sciences. We are 13 scientists. Not one of us is Black,” the editorial team of Cell began.
All three articles pointed to the lack of black representation in science and medical fields as evidence that systemic boundaries are keeping black people from entering and excelling.
“It is easy to divert blame, to point out that the journal is a reflection of the scientific establishment, to quote statistics. But it is this epidemic of denial of the integral role that each and every member of our society plays in supporting the status quo by failing to actively fight it that has allowed overt and systemic racism to flourish, crippling the lives and livelihoods of Black Americans, including Black scientists,” Cell continued. “Science has a racism problem.”
Science Magazine Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp invoked Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” pointing to one of the chief problems with 1960s systemic racism that King identified as the “white moderate,” or people who value an ordered society over a just one. Thorp said the “white moderate” mindset of the 1960s is still prevalent today.
“The reckoning Dr. King calls for has not happened in the intervening 57 years. The failure of the white moderates to heed the call of the Birmingham Jail is just as integral to today’s systemic racism as the racist actions of some law enforcement. It’s not just abusive police that need to be reminded that Black Lives Matter,” Thorp wrote.
The board of NEJM asserted that the United States’ problems with structural racism could be traced back to 1619, referring to the date of the first European slave ship arriving in the U.S. The date has been popularized by The New York Times’ “1619 Project” which contends that the United States’ true founding was coterminous with the beginning of slavery.
“Slavery has produced a legacy of racism, injustice, and brutality that runs from 1619 to the present, and that legacy infects medicine as it does all social institutions,” NEJM writes.
The NEJM board contends that “structural racism” has kept black doctors out of the practice of medicine, directly impacting the health care of the black community in the U.S. The board cites a study suggesting that black patients are more likely to seek preventative care from black doctors.
“Structural racism in medicine and medical education continue to compromise our ability to deliver the best culturally competent care. Black patients, who are already affected by health inequities and impaired health care access, have a much lower chance than white or Asian-American patients of finding a racially concordant physician,” NEJM writes.
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‘Science Has A Racism Problem’: Top Science Journals Say ‘Systemic Racism’ Is Keeping Black People From Entering STEM

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What if there&#8217;s a parallel universe, with a parallel Earth, where everything is exactly the same except people eat corn on the cob vertically instead of horizontally?
It just might be out there, NASA scientists say.
&#8220;NASA scientists have detected evidence of a parallel universe, right next to ours, where all the rules of physics seem to be operating in reverse,&#8221; the UK&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/nasa-scientists-detect-parallel-universe-21996849">Daily Star</a> writes.
That includes time.
Scientists at the National Aeronautic Space Administration have conducted a series of cosmic ray detection experiments, which have found particles that could be from outside our universe.
<blockquote>NASA ’s Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) uses a giant balloon to haul delicate electronic antennas high into the cold dry air above Antarctica – where there is little or no radio noise to distort its findings.
There is a constant “wind’ of high energy particles coming from outer space – some of which are a million times more powerful than anything we can generate ourselves. Low energy particles – neutrinos – can pass completely through the Earth, barely interacting with the substance of our planet at all. But higher energy objects are stopped by the reassuringly solid matter of the Earth.
That means that high energy particles can only be detected coming “down” from outer space. To detect a heavier particle – a tau neutrino – coming “up” out of the Earth would imply that these particles are actually travelling backwards in time. And that is exactly what the ANITA scientists have seen.</blockquote>
The findings suggest evidence of a parallel universe, The Star reported. The initial experiments were conducted in 2016, but researchers have been combing over the data and recently detected what they think are particles moving upward from Earth.
Principal ANITA investigator Peter Gorham, an experimental particle physicist at the University of Hawaii and lead author on a Cornell University paper describing the odd phenomenon, said the simplest explanation is that at the instant of the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago, there were two universes formed — the one we know and another one that, from our position, appears to be going in reverse, with time going backward.
&#8220;[A]ll sorts of suggestions rooted in known physics have been put forward to account for the perplexing signal, and all have been ruled out,&#8221; <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532770-400-we-may-have-spotted-a-parallel-universe-going-backwards-in-time/#ixzz6MvApkrs3">New Scientist</a> reported. &#8220;What’s left is shocking in its implications. Explaining this signal requires the existence of a topsy-turvy universe created in the same big bang as our own and existing in parallel with it. In this mirror world, positive is negative, left is right and time runs backwards. It is perhaps the most mind-melting idea ever to have emerged from the Antarctic ice ­­– but it might just be true.&#8221;
Then again, the scientists say there&#8217;s a possibility that the odd results came from an error the ANITA made.
&#8220;We&#8217;re left with the most exciting or most boring possibilities,&#8221; said Ibrahim Safa, who also works on the experiment.
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BIZZARO WORLD: NASA Scientists Detect Evidence Of Parallel Universe — Where Time Runs Backward

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On Monday, the Pentagon officially declassified three videos featuring what it calls &#8220;unidentified aerial phenomena&#8221; spotted by Navy pilots off the west coast.
The videos, which leaked to media outlets back in 2007 and again in 2017, are in black and white and appear grainy, so it is difficult to discern the specific &#8220;UAPs,&#8221; but, the Pentagon said, it felt compelled to substantiate the videos&#8217; authenticity since they were already in the public domain.
After a &#8220;thorough review, the department has determined that the authorized release of these unclassified videos does not reveal any sensitive capabilities or systems,&#8221; the Pentagon said in a statement.
&#8220;DOD [Department of Defense] is releasing the videos in order to clear up any misconceptions by the public on whether or not the footage that has been circulating was real, or whether or not there is more to the videos. The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as &#8216;unidentified,'&#8221; the Pentagon continued.
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&#8220;According to the New York Times, a clip from 2004 was filmed by two navy fighter pilots and shows a round object hovering above the water, about 100 miles (160 km) out into the Pacific Ocean,&#8221; the BBC reported Monday. &#8220;Two other videos filmed in 2015 show objects moving through the air, one of which is spinning. In one, a pilot is heard saying: &#8216;Look at that thing, dude! It&#8217;s rotating!'&#8221;
&#8220;My gosh, they&#8217;re all going against the wind! The wind&#8217;s 120 knots out of the west!&#8221; the voice, assumed to be the pilot of one of the Navy planes, exclaims.
The Pentagon is hesitant to label the items featured in the video as &#8220;unidentified flying objects,&#8221; likely since the term is closely related to the study of extraterrestrial life (and associated conspiracy theories), and, instead, refers to the objects as &#8220;unidentified aerial phenomena,&#8221; and notes that they could be foreign planes or robotic devices.
In 2017, The New York Times reported extensively about the Pentagon&#8217;s efforts to collect and analyze video, largely taken by military pilots, of these &#8220;unexplained aerial phenomena.&#8221; Established and supported by then-Senator Harry Reid, the classified Pentagon program was considered the clearinghouse for suspected &#8220;alien&#8221; encounters, but it shuttered in 2012, shortly before Reid retired.
After The New York Times report, the Navy and Air Force established a uniform procedure for reporting UFOs.
In 2018, a group called To The Stars Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences, founded by Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge, who has dedicated his life to the study of UFOs after leaving the band (which now tours with a different lead singer), requested the Pentagon declassify the videos, which had gone viral.
One of the pilots, who witnessed the 2004 incident, spoke to media in 2017 about the encounter: &#8220;As I got close to it &#8230; it rapidly accelerated to the south, and disappeared in less than two seconds,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/politics/pentagon-ufo-videos/index.html?utm_term=link&amp;utm_source=twCNN&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=2020-04-28T16%3A00%3A05">he said</a>. &#8220;This was extremely abrupt, like a ping pong ball, bouncing off a wall. It would hit and go the other way.&#8221;
<a href="https://disrn.com/news/pentagon-releases-3-videos-of-unidentified-aerial-phenomena?fbclid=IwAR2ZNjBSy2voCO-gYyDP2MBbdiMDlUn1REtS2ZJiD6wHryP93VRq-aj-iac">DISRN.com also notes</a> that the two pilots involved in that encounter were sent up to intercept the object which a Navy vessel had been tracking &#8220;for weeks.&#8221; The object was &#8220;roughly 40 feet long hovering roughly 50 feet above the water that quickly descended when approached.&#8221;
The Pentagon has not said whether it plans to declassify any further videos.
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UFOs? Pentagon Officially Releases Video Of ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’ Spotted By Navy Pilots

When “The Lost City Of Z” director James Gray announced his latest film “Ad Astra” at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, he made the bold declaration that it would be &#8220;the most realistic depiction of space travel that&#8217;s been put in a movie and to basically say, &#8216;Space is awfully hostile to us.'&#8221; While it is unclear if he succeeded in that regard, the feature is lined with an all-star cast and stunning visuals. The movie, on paper, seems idyllic. Its science fiction story does its best to depict a realistic version of space and space travel with incredible technical skill and stunning effects, but it fails to make an emotional connection.
In the “near future,” Major Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) works for the United States Space Command. After a series of electric surges begin threatening Earth’s solar system, he is called to a meeting with the brass. There he learns that his thought-dead father, famous astronaut Commander H. Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) may be alive. It is thought the “Project Lima” mission he vanished on sixteen years ago may have something to do with the surges since they are originating from Neptune, where his father’s team vanished in an attempt to contact extraterrestrials.  
Roy is being sent to Mars with his father’s old friend Colonel Thomas Pruitt (Donald Sutherland), who had a falling-out with his dad before the Project Lima mission. They travel first to the moon where they are attacked by space pirates. Surviving the attack, Roy parts ways with Pruitt, who was injured during the assault. However, he gives Roy a message revealing a dark secret about his father and their mission. Roy boards another rocket to Mars as the surges increase in size and frequency. With the danger growing, his only hope is to contact his father before time runs out.
From a technical perspective, the movie is incredible. Everything was done with excellent detail. As Roy makes his journey into deep space, farther than most have gone before, you feel every tense moment of the lack of gravity, confinement, and the claustrophobic nature of the space vessels. There is a moment early on in the film when the character takes a high fall and you watch every moment with anticipation at the realism on screen. In addition, the musical score by Max Richter, who also worked on “Hostiles,” perfectly complemented the plot as it unfolded before you. 
However, while this movie is impressive when it comes to the technical aspects, it ultimately fails to give the viewer a way to connect with it on a personal and emotional level. 
Though brilliantly acted by Pitt, Roy’s character is a cold, distant protagonist who fails at evoking empathy. He follows the career path of his father, becoming an astronaut. This proves to be a detriment in his life, shown when his wife, Eve (played briefly by Liv Tyler) leaves him. His coldhearted nature pushes her away, but instead of feeling a connection with him over the collapse of his marriage, you almost feel relieved she got out when she did. 
Likewise, the tone of the film is incredibly nihilistic. Religion is portrayed as an obsession to “let go” rather than a personal matter of faith to hold tight. Relationships are shown to be nothing more than a mere bumping into each other rather than emotional connections that guide our life. In the end, only the “duty” of fulfilling the mission is shown to give any sense of peace. Give your life to the state, the mission, because even if they deceive you, they are still better than those old fashioned beliefs or relationships. This left the movie with no substance. 
While impressive in its visuals, composition, and even performances, the story of “Ad Astra” gets lost in its emptiness, both metaphorically in its depiction of space and literally in the weightlessness of its plot. 
Check out the trailer below:
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A man in England claimed he discovered a fossil while out walking his two dogs.
The man, 54-year-old Jon Gopsill, said his dogs sniffed out the fossil on a beach in Somerset, which is in South West England. The fossil is five-and-a-half feet long and is believed to have been unearthed by recent storms, The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/16/dog-walker-discovers-65-million-year-old-fossil-pets-sniff/">reported</a>. Gopsill, the outlet reported, fancies himself an amateur archaeologist and said he believes the fossil is 65 million-years-old and may be that of an ichthyosaur.
Ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs, but ancient marine vertebrates, which resembled modern-day porpoise. They first appeared during the Triassic period, <a href="https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ichthyosauria.html">according to</a> former University of California-Berkeley post-doctoral researcher Ryosuke Motani. They reached their highest population during the Jurassic period and began to decline afterward, disappearing during the Cretaceous period, which occurred several million years before the dinosaurs were wiped out.
Some rare fossils have shown that ichthyosaurs gave birth to live young and never left the water. There’s no indication that they had gills, making them similar to modern-day whales.
Gopsill said he had previously found other fossils – mostly ammonites, and the Telegraph reported that “West Somerset’s northern bays are known for their fossil finds,” including rocks from the Jurassic and Triassic eras. The outlet reported that just last year, “part of the lower jaw of a 85-foot ichthyosaur was found in the Somerset village of Lilstock, thought to be 235 to 200 million years old.”
Gopsill told the outlet he reported the fossil he discovered to the Somerset Heritage and the Natural History Museum.
&#8220;I often go to the beach walking with my dogs and when the tide goes out we go out to the rocks because they like playing there,&#8221; Gopsill told the Telegraph. &#8220;I have always been a bit of an amateur fossil hunter and I have found a good supply of ammonites, so I always keep my eyes open.”
&#8220;We were at the beach when I saw this thing and thought &#8216;what&#8217;s that?&#8217; so I went a bit closer and thought &#8216;wow,&#8217;” he continued. &#8220;I thought it was obviously a fossilised sea creature, possibly an ichthyosaur. It doesn&#8217;t have a head, I have look[ed] around but I can&#8217;t find it. It has been there for at least 65 million years.”
&#8220;I realised straight that it was amazing, museum quality stuff, as soon as I saw it I knew I found something special. I was just blown away to see it there. It really is incredible that is has survived for such a long time and is now just there for everyone to see,” Gopsill concluded.
Dr. Mike Day, who curates the Earth Sciences department at the Natural History Museum, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7796945/Dog-walker-stumbles-five-half-foot-long-Jurassic-fossil-Somerset-beach.html">confirmed to The Daily Mail</a> that the fossil found by Gopsill was likely that of an ichthyosaur.
“Looking at this specimen, based on the number of bones in the pectoral paddle, the apparent absence of a pelvic girdle, as well as the distinctive ‘hunch’ of the back, this is likely to be the remains of an ichthyosaur,” Day told the outlet. “It is not possible to identify the exact type of ichthyosaur from these images alone however.”

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A Dog Walker In The U.K. Just Found A 65 Million-Year-Old Fossil Thanks To Two Very Good Doggos

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SHAPIRO: 10 Leftist Myths On Religion & Science

The absolute worst case of professional incompetence and dishonesty is in the area of climate science. Tony Heller has exposed some of the egregious dishonesty of mainstream environmentalists in a video he&#8217;s titled &#8220;My Gift To Climate Alarmists.&#8221; Environmentalists and their political allies attribute the recent increase in deadly forest fires to global warming. However, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture&#8217;s Forest Service, forest fires reached their peak in the 1930s and have declined by 80% since then. Environmentalists hide the earlier data and make their case for the effects of global warming by showing the public and policymakers data from 1980 that shows an increase in forest fires.
Climate scientists claim that rising sea levels are caused by man-made global warming. Historical data from the tide gauge in Lower Manhattan shows that sea levels have been rising from about the time when Abraham Lincoln was president to now. Heller says that sea levels have been rising for about 20,000 years. He points out that anthropologists believe that when the sea level was very low people were able to walk from Siberia to North America.
Hot weather is often claimed to be a result of man-made climate change. Heller presents data showing the number of days in Waverly, Ohio, above 90 degrees. In 1895, there were 73 days above 90 degrees. In 1936, there were 82 days above 90 degrees. Since the 1930s, there has been a downward trend in the number of days above 90 degrees. If climatologists hide data from earlier years and started at 1955, they show an increase in the number of above 90-degree days from eight or nine to 30 or 40. Thus, to deceive us into thinking the climate is getting hotter, environmentalists have selected a starting date that fits their agenda.
You might ask: &#8220;Who is Tony Heller? Does he work for big oil?&#8221; It turns out that he is a scientist and claims to be a lifelong environmentalist. From what I can tell, he has no vested interests. In that respect, he is different from those who lead the environmental movement, who often either work for or are funded by governments.
Once in a while environmentalists reveal their true agenda. Ottmar Edenhofer, lead author of the IPCC&#8217;s fourth summary report released in 2007, speaking in 2010 advised: &#8220;One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world&#8217;s wealth.&#8221; U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres said that the true aim of the U.N.&#8217;s 2014 Paris climate conference was &#8220;to change the (capitalist) economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.&#8221; Christine Stewart, Canada&#8217;s former Minister of the Environment said: &#8220;No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits. &#8230; Climate change (provides) the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.&#8221; Tim Wirth, former U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs and the person most responsible for setting up the Kyoto Protocol said: &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.&#8221;
Not all scientists are dishonest and not all news reporters are leftists with an agenda. But one wonders at the deafening silence where there&#8217;s clear, unambiguous evidence. For example, if ocean levels have been rising for some 20,000 years, why do scientists allow environmentalists to get away with the claim that it&#8217;s a result of man-made global warming? Why aren&#8217;t there any reporters to highlight leftist statements such as those by Edenhofer, Stewart and others who want to ride global warming as a means to defeat capitalism and usher in socialism and communism? I would prefer to think that the silence of so many scientists represent their fears as opposed to their going along with the environmental extremist agenda.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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WILLIAMS: Scientists: Dishonest or Afraid?

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On the campus of Baylor University in Waco, Texas Thursday, bestselling author and editor-in-chief of The Daily Wire Ben Shapiro explained why the Left, which portrays itself as the great promoter and defender of science, frequently rejects it, discarding scientific evidence whenever it conflicts with progressive ideology.
&#8220;Tonight I&#8217;m talking about why the Left hates science,&#8221; Shapiro began (video below). &#8220;Now to a lot of folks on the Left, this sounds ridiculous. After all, it&#8217;s right-wingers who are &#8216;climate deniers,&#8217; &#8216;science deniers,&#8217; and they believe in that book, the Bible, and they&#8217;re all wild and crazy – they don&#8217;t believe in anything like the scientific method. But the truth is, right now many of the attacks on science are coming from the political Left.&#8221;
Shapiro first zeroed in on the significant difference in the Left and Right’s diverging views of human nature, the former pushing the idea of &#8220;infinite human malleability,&#8221; which posits that human beings can be altered &#8220;from anything to anything,&#8221; particularly by government coercion – thus providing &#8220;the impetus for top-down governmental control.&#8221;
&#8220;If you can remove the remediating institutions of society, human beings can be remade from the top down,&#8221; Shapiro explained in summary of the Left&#8217;s view of an &#8220;infinitely malleable&#8221; human nature. The problem, Shapiro argued, is that this view is undermined by reality. &#8220;Infinite engineering of humankind, unfortunately, tends to be undermined by the facts of human nature,&#8221; he stated.
Conservatives view human beings in a more scientific way, Shapiro suggested, believing that we operate in part by a &#8220;fixed human nature&#8221; and accept the premise that “human beings are happiest when they exercise reason in accordance with that nature.&#8221;
While the Left &#8220;likes to pretend that it loves science,&#8221; Shapiro argued, &#8220;much of what it terms science is not in fact science.&#8221; As examples, Shapiro pointed to the Left&#8217;s embrace of political science and the social sciences, which &#8220;often do not meet the rigorous standards of science.&#8221;
What the Left actually means by &#8220;science,&#8221; Shapiro underscored, is &#8220;anything that is not religion.&#8221;
“That’s because people on the secular Left see religion as an obstacle to progress – all progress,” the bestselling author explained. “They’re not merely concerned with Galileo – who, by the way, was an ardent believer in the Divine. They’re concerned that religion acts as a retrograde check on their ambitions to rewrite society, including the rewriting of fundamental societal truths, like distinctions between the sexes and the value of the family unit.”
This “animus for religion,” said Shapiro, “is why so many on the Left will routinely characterize science-based conservative positions as religious in nature.”
As an example, he pointed to the Left’s criticism of pro-lifers, which focuses mainly on the fact that many pro-lifers’ believe in the Bible as a definitive authoritative source. While it may be true that pro-lifers are often people of faith, that point is simply &#8220;a convenient strawman&#8221; for the political Left, said Shapiro.
The distinction the Left attempts to impose between religion and science, Shapiro maintained, is ultimately &#8220;false,&#8221; resting on &#8220;an utter misunderstanding of both science and religion.&#8221;
Watch Shapiro’s speech below:
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Shapiro&#8217;s speech at Baylor is part of the Young America’s Foundation&#8217;s Fred Allen Lecture Series. Last week, Shapiro visited the campus of Boston University to address the Left&#8217;s Claim that &#8220;America was built on slavery,&#8221; a view Shapiro argued is based on reductive presuppositions that result in a grim and flawed vision of what defines the country.  (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/livestream-ben-shapiro-america-wasnt-built-on-slavery">Watch the speech here</a>.)
A week earlier, Shapiro spoke at Stanford University, focusing on the “dangerous game” being played by the Alt-Right, whose leaders he condemned as espousing racist and anti-Semitic views diametrically opposed to conservatism, and their counterparts on the radical Left, who attempt to brand conservatives as &#8220;Alt-Right&#8221; despite their glaringly diverging views. (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-shapiro-dismantles-the-alt-right-and-radical-lefts-dangerous-game">Watch the speech here</a>.)
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-alt-right-hecklers-attempt-to-trap-ben-shapiro-fail-miserably">WATCH: Hecklers Attempt To Trap Ben Shapiro, Fail Miserably</a>

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WATCH: Ben Shapiro: How The Left Pretends To Love Science But Actually Hates It

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Two individuals, a married couple in China, have been diagnosed with &#8220;pneumonic plague,&#8221; according to <a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/world/two-counts-of-pneumonic-plague-diagnosed-in-china-authorities-attempting-to-prevent-outbreak">international reports</a> &#8212; a strain of the plague &#8220;more infectious than the strain that ravaged Europe in the Dark Ages.&#8221;
According to Chinese state-run media, per Canada&#8217;s National Post, &#8220;doctors in Beijing confirmed that the patients, from China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, were infected with pneumonic plague.&#8221; The two individuals who contracted the disease are receiving treatment at Chaoyang Hospital in Beijing.
The pair contracted the disease near their home in Inner Mongolia, making them the second such couple to have contracted the plague in that general region since May, when a Mongolian couple died from eating raw organ meat from an infected marmot, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/13/health/china-plague-intl-hnk-scn-scli/index.html">CNN reports</a>. The husband contracted the disease first and was nursed by the wife until she also fell ill.
&#8220;Plague, caused by bacteria and transmitted through flea bites and infected animals, can develop in three different forms. Bubonic plague causes swollen lymph nodes, while septicemic plague infects the blood and pneumonic plague infects the lungs,&#8221; CNN continues. &#8220;Pneumonic &#8212; the kind the Chinese patients have &#8212; is more virulent and damaging. Left untreated, it is always fatal, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).&#8221;
Most victims of the bubonic plague catch the disease from infected parasites, typically fleas or body lice. The &#8220;pneumonic plague,&#8221; which can be an advanced form of the bubonic plague, is transmitted from person to person, according to the WHO, and has a 24 hour incubation period, during which it targets a person&#8217;s lungs and respiratory system.
There are typically several incidents of the plague each year in China &#8212; and even a couple in the United States &#8212; and most do not result in outbreaks like the one that killed an estimated 50 million people in Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The disease, the WHO says, lives on in low levels in rodent populations, and circulates among animals that live alongside humans, including cats and dogs, so its difficult to eradicate completely.
&#8220;From 2010 to 2015, more than 3,248 cases were reported worldwide, including 584 deaths, according to the WHO. The three most endemic countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar, and Peru,&#8221; CNN reports.
While researchers are developing a vaccine, there is currently no blanket preventative measure for the disease, aside from using DEET-based insect repellents.
In this case, though, such numbers do little to quash concerns that China could be dealing with an actual outbreak, particularly given that Chinese state-run media wouldn&#8217;t acknowledge an out-of-hand situation. The mere fact that the Chinese government is acknowledging two incidents of the pneumonic plague seemed to set off alarm bells on social media, particularly among watchdogs of Chinese current events.
UPI notes that &#8220;Chinese authorities have previously reported cases of the bubonic plague. In 2009, there were 12 confirmed cases of the plague; three people died. The following year, China claimed seven confirmed cases of the plague and two deaths. In 2014, there were three confirmed cases of the plague, and three people dead from the fatal disease, according to Chinese government statistics.&#8221;
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Imagine being pulled over on suspicion of driving drunk even though you hadn’t had a drop of alcohol. Now imagine a blood alcohol test showing you were at twice the legal limit – again, even though you hadn’t drunk any alcohol.
Such was the case of a North Carolina man, who insisted he hadn’t drunk despite his blood alcohol level being 0.2%, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08%. He was pulled over but refused to take a breathalyzer, so he was taken to a hospital, where his BAC was determined.
He continued to say he hadn’t touched alcohol but, naturally, no one believed him.
It wasn’t until he was studied by researchers at the Richmond University Medical Center in New York that he found out what was causing his alleged drunkenness – a medical condition.
CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/10/25/health/beer-stomach-autobrewery-syndrome-trnd/index.html">reported</a> the man was discovered to have a rare condition known as auto-brewery system (ABS) or gut fermentation syndrome. The condition causes his body to convert carbohydrates into alcohol.
The doctors that studied him published a study in BMJ Open Gastroenterology about his condition and what they did to treat him. The study’s lead author, Fahad Malik, chief internal medicine resident at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, told CNN what happens to a person with the condition.
“These patients have the exact same implications of alcoholism: the smell, the breath, drowsiness, gait changes,&#8221; Malik told the outlet. &#8220;They will present as someone who&#8217;s intoxicated by alcohol, but the only difference here is that these patients can be treated by antifungal medications.&#8221;
The man didn’t have the condition his entire life. It wasn’t like he was falling down “drunk” in grade school. The condition developed after he took antibiotics to treat an injury to his thumb.
“His personality started to change, researchers wrote in the study, and he experienced episodes of depression, &#8216;brain fog,&#8217; memory loss and aggressive behavior that was out of character for him,” CNN reported.
Three years after his drunk driving arrest, doctors in Ohio found two strains of yeast and told him to cut carbs out of his diet and take supplements. He seemed fine at first, but a few weeks later he began acting drunk again.
Nothing seemed to help the condition, and at some point the man fell down due to his blood alcohol level, leading to brain bleeding. Eventually, after finding an online support group, the man was directed to the Richmond University Medical Center. The researchers there found that, possibly due to the antibiotics he had taken for his thumb, his “gut microbiome” had been altered, leading to ABS.
The man was given probiotics and treated with antifungal therapies, which helped his condition. After a year and a half – except for one time when he ate pizza and beer – he appears to be nearly cured.
“Approximately 1.5 years later, he remains asymptomatic and has resumed his previous lifestyle, including eating a normal diet while still checking his breath alcohol levels sporadically,&#8221; the study’s authors wrote, as reported by CNN.
This man is not the only one with this condition. It has been studied since the early part of the century, and researchers hope their method of treating the North Carolina man can help others with the condition.

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Police Thought He Was Drunk. It Turns Out He Had A Rare Medical Condition That Made His Body A Brewery.

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Recently, The Atlantic Monthly published <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/?fbclid=IwAR2jRgvcsnILYqgaMph5gxz9K-5hNu4mCcRJ9vLrXHVFzM1cD3vhD0iP5oc">an article</a> entitled “A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked.” The article details the latest discoveries in neuroscience regarding the age-old debate between <a href="https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#DoWeHaveFreeWill">free will and determinism</a>. According to the piece, the available science now suggests that we may, in fact, have free will contrary to the biological determinism impressed upon us by the scientific community for almost a century. And so the debate rages on for yet another millennia, if not till kingdom come.
More importantly, the article illustrates a vital point for those of us who maintain faith as a central aspect of our lives. It’s imperative as people of faith that we do not attempt to corroborate our beliefs with scientific facts or endeavors. Not only is it a fool’s errand, it’s also a detriment to faith itself.
While it may seem intriguing or even somewhat reasonable to buttress our religious beliefs with scientific evidence, it very much runs the risk of delegitimizing the very beliefs we are attempting to prove as empirically true. Nevermind that it can be a <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-red-seas-parting-180953553/">theological wild goose chase</a>, scientific theories are disproven all the time. If we seek scientific corroboration for our deeply held religious beliefs those very beliefs run the risk of being disproven as well.
<blockquote>“But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis</blockquote>
An inherent aspect of science is that it remains in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superseded_theories_in_science">constant state of flux</a> wherein in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_relativity">new discoveries</a> supplant long-held theories in an instant. For example, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniometry">craniometry</a> was considered a perfectly valid method to scientifically measure human intelligence in the nineteenth century. We know now that it’s bunk and the methods and paradigms employed to reach such conclusions were specious at best.
Regardless, let’s say, for the sake of argument, that some piece of scripture in the Abrahamic traditions seemingly supported the antiquated idea that head size was indicative of intelligence. The instant the scientific theory is rendered obsolete, the scripture is as well. One is, essentially, building exegetical constructs on quicksand.
That doesn’t mean that science cannot provide us with a continued sense of wonderment toward all that God has created nor does it mean that we dismiss scientific truths for the sake of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46432/cases-measles-us-climbs-highest-level-25-years-ashe-schow">rote, blind dogma</a>. Not at all. What it does entail is that religious truths cannot reside in the lower, earthly strata of the scientific worldview. Simply put, religious truths must supersede them.
<blockquote>“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, 
than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet, William Shakespeare</blockquote>
It also has to be vehemently stated that though we may not find tenable support in science for our religious beliefs, this does not mean, in any way, that we abandon our critical faculties when studying our respective traditions. Faith must be an active pursuit if it’s to maintain its necessary vitality and strength and not be reduced to some dust-covered ornament on a shelf. God gave us both a head and a heart for a reason.
That said, we need to also consider just how hopelessly dogmatic the scientific community continues to be as the defining paradigm for well over a century. In Why Religion Matters, renowned religious scholar Huston Smith drives home this point compellingly:
<blockquote>Among scientists themselves, debates over Darwin rage furiously, fueled by comments such as Fred Hoyle&#8217;s now-famous assertion that the chance of natural selection&#8217;s producing even an enzyme is on order of a tornado&#8217;s roaring through a junkyard and coming up with a Boeing 747. But when religion enters the picture, scientists close ranks in supporting Darwinism&#8230;Michael Ruse of the University of Guelph — a self-confessed bulldog for Darwinism — puts this colonization of theology by biology when he charges his fellow Darwinists with behaving as if Darwinism were a religion. (Why Religion Matters, p. 77)</blockquote>
While religious traditions continue to be maligned as antiquated and dogmatic pursuits, particularly by younger generations, they are completely unaware of just how dogmatically suspect many of their <a href="https://youtu.be/GlZtEjtlirc?t=203">own current conclusions</a> can be.
Smith continues:
<blockquote>Rustum Roy, a materials scientist at Pennsylvania State, goes further. Half seriously, he has threatened to sue the National Science Foundation for violating the separation of church and state in funding branches of science that turned themselves into religions&#8230;we have the curious spectacle of [Darwinism] colonizing not only theology but biology as well. (Why Religion Matters, p. 77)</blockquote>
While it may be intriguing to find parallels between our religious beliefs and all that science offers and continues to discover, it’s an unwise pursuit outside of some mild curiosity. Science is limited and reductive in scope and simply cannot grasp the awe, grandeur, and transcendence faith and God encompass beyond measure.

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KHAN: Why Seeking Scientific Proof For Religious Realities Is A Fool’s Errand

California&#8217;s governor signed a first-of-its-kind bill late last week, dramatically limiting — if not completely erasing — exemptions to the state&#8217;s mandatory vaccination law for children.
Some California residents, however, who say that the bill represents a shocking governmental overreach that threatens their personal autonomy, are pushing to have the law included on the November ballot.
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-governor-signs-bills-crack-down-fraudulent-vaccine-exemptions-n1051756">NBC News reports</a> that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of bills designed to &#8220;crack down on doctors who write fraudulent medical exemptions for school children&#8217;s vaccinations,&#8221; in order to re-establish California&#8217;s falling childhood vaccination rate, which has given rise to a number of outbreaks of preventable diseases — including the measles — over the last several years.
&#8220;This legislation provides new tools to better protect public health, and does so in a way that ensures parents, doctors, public health officials and school administrators all know the rules of the road moving forward,&#8221; Newsom wrote in a statement to press accompanying the bill.
California already outlaws non-medical exemptions for vaccinations but lawmakers say parents who claim to be skeptical about the number and necessity of childhood vaccinations are obtaining fraudulent doctors&#8217; notes, allowing their children to attend school without being fully vaccinated, even though they aren&#8217;t actually medically fragile.
CNN reports that California&#8217;s vaccination rates have fallen dramatically over the course of the last decade, particularly in largely white, upper-middle-class enclaves where an anti-vaccination movement has taken root. The decision to require children to be immunized against specific diseases in order to attend school in the state has slowed the trend somewhat, but lawmakers feel making doctors who collude with patients who want to avoid vaccination, but aren&#8217;t actually medically fragile, responsible will stem the tide further.
&#8220;Under the new laws,&#8221; CNN reports, &#8220;the state will issue a standardized medical exemption certification form for doctors to complete and send to a child&#8217;s school. The form would outline the details of the exemption and include information about the medical basis for the exemption.&#8221;
Doctors who &#8220;grant five or more exemptions in a year&#8221; could find themselves subject to a state investigation, as could school districts where vaccination rates fall below 95% — the lowest rate necessary to preserve herd immunity and protect medically fragile children who legitimately cannot be vaccinated.
The bills are likely to go into effect January 1, 2020, but some anti-vaccination activists say they&#8217;re going to push for the measure to be included on the November ballot, because they believe punishing doctors who give false cover to anti-vaccine parents is a huge government overreach. Opposition to the bill has been strong, and anti-vaccine parents have hosted large protests at the California state capital building, calling in reinforcements from across the country in order to help preserve their ability to leave their children unvaccinated.
In one particularly disturbing incident, protesters <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/09/anti-vaccine-protester-menstrual-cup-blood-california-senate.html">threw what appeared to be menstrual blood</a> on legislators headed to a vote.
Three protesters, who all consider themselves members of an anti-vaccine movement, have submitted a request to put the issue to a referendum, which would force the state to defend the measure at the ballot box, <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article234989047.html">according to the Sacramento Bee</a>, which has followed the controversy surrounding the vaccine bill closely.
&#8220;Documents released by the Attorney General’s Office say the petition was submitted by Denise Aguilar, Heidi Munoz Gleisner and Tara Thornton. It was sent from a postal office near the Capitol,&#8221; the Sac Bee reports. &#8220;Aguilar, Munoz Gleisner and Thornton protested the vaccine bill throughout August and September. They temporarily shut down an Aug. 30 Assembly Appropriations Committee hearing where they stood on chairs and chanted after lawmakers advanced the bill.&#8221;
The legislator who drafted the bill says he&#8217;ll oppose the referendum measure.

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California Passes Stringent New Vaccine Requirements But Voters May Get Final Decision

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On this week’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show: Sunday Special,” Shapiro spoke with physics professor Brian Keating, of The University of California – San Diego, about religious belief among scientists and the origins of the universe. Video and partial transcript below: 
SHAPIRO: [In your book &#8220;Losing the Nobel Prize,&#8221; you talk about] resistance to this idea that there was an origin to the universe. Specifically, that a lot of that was based on an anti-religious sentiment, which is, this looks a lot like the very beginning of the Bible and that scares a lot of scientists.
KEATING: Yea, so back then, in the 1950s and so forth when Fred Hoyle, who is an amazing astronomer, he won the basically the runner up prize to the Nobel Prize — the Crafoord Prize. He ended up saying that the reason that scientists are so adamant about the Big Bang is because they&#8217;re obsessed with Genesis 1:1. You know, can you imagine Lawrence Krauss or somebody just obsessed, &#8216;Oh, I have to prove that Genesis 1:1,&#8217; I mean, it&#8217;s absurd. As you pointed out earlier, most scientists are atheists and the majority of the National Academy of Sciences, the most prestigious organization on earth, are declared atheist or you know, 20% are agnostic or don&#8217;t know, and 10% believe.
So it&#8217;s interesting how much we&#8217;ve evolved just since the 1950s. And then to actually have that brought into focus, and that people now accept without a doubt that there was at the beginning of what we call the observable universe — that does not mean that we&#8217;ve witnessed time equals zero, and that&#8217;s where things get really interesting. &#8230; Let&#8217;s say time began: What causes something to begin when there&#8217;s no something to begin with, to begin with? How did time change from nothing into something? These are questions that have perfectly good answers, potentially, but we don&#8217;t have the data. So my job is to collect that data, or perhaps refute these models by collecting data that is objectionable under those hypotheses.
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SHAPIRO: So in this particular context, obviously, a lot of religious leaders say, well [we&#8217;ve] got a good answer for you, right. [Here&#8217;s] what kicked off time. But we have this whole religious literature that&#8217;s built around the idea that there was a thing that kicked off time, and that thing was God. This is what we call God in the Talmudic model. But the scientists that have been promoting a bunch of different theories as to why the universe was created the way that it was, why it exists in the way that it does. And it seems like a lot of this is a response to some of the arguments, yes, that some religious believers have made about the fine-tuning of the universe. The idea that a certain number of things had to go exactly right for us to be here at this time.
So you hear arguments made on a fairly routine basis about how, well, you know, that&#8217;s just how randomness works: We&#8217;re just the lucky ones. Religious believers argue back, well, but why are we the lucky ones? That&#8217;s a pretty convenient argument, that we happen to be the lucky ones. Why wouldn&#8217;t we have been one of the non-lucky ones, exactly? So how do you circle that square? How do you come down on that particular debate?
KEATING: I think, for me, it&#8217;s so much fun to think about these things. So nowadays, you know, you&#8217;re alluding to the anthropic principle, which I&#8217;ll describe in a minute, and the multiverse. It&#8217;s funny, in scientific circles with my scientist friends, I can&#8217;t say multiverse without getting into a fight. You know, you say multiverse, we&#8217;re gonna take sides. And some people say, that&#8217;s not even science or they&#8217;ll say, you know that&#8217;s pure nonsense, or they’ll say this is the best answer that scientists have. &#8230;
I mean, [some people], have much more faith in this kind of dispassionate science, which has led to this real canard almost, an overused stereotype that scientists are these dispassionate people that work, have no feelings and no objective, have no motive, no biases. In the book, I account for many different biases [and] prejudices that scientists, including me, are afflicted by. &#8230;
I think it&#8217;s interesting, I never hear from the religious. I hear crazy things from religious people, you know that are just non-scientific to bolster their own hypothesis — they&#8217;re perfectly willing to have confirmation bias sometimes, too. But in the case of the scientists, I think they&#8217;re — again, this is touching back on some deep thing within them, a sensitive nerve. [Perhaps they think] that if there were something true about religion, then I have all these obligations and I have enough to do at the faculty club already. &#8230;
But I think it&#8217;s very interesting to think about these questions of what generated this new pursuit in science. Was it a great reaction to these religious explanations? So Robert Jastrow worked at Goddard Space Center, and he wrote a book called &#8220;God and the Astronomers,&#8221; and he was [a] declared agnostic, and he said, upon the discovery of this cosmic background radiation &#8230; that people, scientists who were secular, climbed to the top of the mountain and found a band of theologians rejoicing up there.
On the other hand, when the Big Bang was first proposed by a Belgian priest named LeMaitre, he implicitly told the pope [to] not use this as evidence for the creation narrative of Genesis 1:1. &#8230; These are non-overlapping magisteria, in Stephen Jay Gould&#8217;s language. These are two different things.
I mean, to think about reading the Bible as a science book is as absurd as reading &#8220;A Brief History of Time&#8221; and thinking, oh, that&#8217;s how I&#8217;m gonna raise my children, [those are] my obligations as a moral, ethical being. So I think these controversies, to me, are so much fun, because these are two puzzles. We may go to our graves [without] answering these questions, but to not think about them? I think it leaves a life of slight impoverishment that my colleagues, unfortunately, many of them love to think about and love to talk about, [but] they stay in the closet about it.
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Physicist To Shapiro: Scientists Have A ‘Sensitive Nerve’ About Religion

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Renowned writer and Yale University professor David Gelernter has turned away from Charles Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution, arguing that it has too many holes and has aged out as a probable scientific theory.
The professor also argued that intelligent design is a serious theory that cannot be shooed away by anti-religious sentiment. Furthermore, he lamented the lack of &#8220;free speech&#8221; concerning theories outside of Darwinism, which has become a &#8220;religion&#8221; to many academics spanning the various scientific fields.
As highlighted by Rachel Alexander at <a href="https://stream.org/author/rachelalexander/">The Stream</a>, Gelernter outlined his rejection of Darwinian thought in an essay published in the Claremont Review of Books, aptly titled, &#8220;<a href="https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/giving-up-darwin/">Giving up Darwin</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;Darwin&#8217;s theory predicts that new life forms evolve gradually from old ones in a constantly branching, spreading tree of life,&#8221; the professor says in the paper. &#8220;Those brave new Cambrian creatures must therefore have had Precambrian predecessors, similar but not quite as fancy and sophisticated. They could not have all blown out suddenly, like a bunch of geysers.&#8221; He explains, &#8220;Each must have had a closely related predecessor, which must have had its own predecessors.&#8221;
Among many other reasons, Gelernter also points to the near impossibility of creating a functional stable protein. &#8220;Immense is so big, and tiny is so small, that neo-Darwinian evolution is — so far — a dead loss. Try to mutate your way from 150 links of gibberish to a working, useful protein and you are guaranteed to fail. Try it with ten mutations, a thousand, a million — you fail. The odds bury you. It can&#8217;t be done.&#8221;
Though he doesn&#8217;t personally subscribe to the theory of intelligent design, Gelernter said it is an &#8220;absolutely serious argument,&#8221; noting that it is the &#8220;first, and obviously most intuitive [theory] that comes to mind,&#8221; Alexander noted.
During a conversation organized by the Hoover Institute in June, Gelernter explained that pro-Darwinian academics will &#8220;destroy&#8221; you if you challenge the theory.
&#8220;I have to distinguish between the way I&#8217;ve been treated personally, which has been a very courteous and collegial way by my colleagues at Yale, they&#8217;re nice guys and I like them, they&#8217;re my friends,&#8221; he said. &#8220;On the other hand, when I look at their intellectual behavior, what they publish, and, much more important, what they tell their students, Darwinism has indeed passed beyond a scientific argument. Glernter explains, &#8220;As far as they are concerned, take your life in you hands to challenge it intellectually. They will destroy you if you challenge it.&#8221;
&#8220;What I&#8217;ve seen, in their behavior intellectually and at colleges across the West, is nothing approaching free speech on this topic,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It’s a bitter rejection, not just — a sort of bitter, fundamental, angry, outraged, violent rejection, which comes nowhere near scientific of intellectual discussion. I&#8217;ve seen that happen again and again. &#8216;I&#8217;m a Darwinism, don&#8217;t you say a word against it, or, I don’t wanna hear it, period.'&#8221;
&#8220;I am attacking their religion,&#8221; he stated. &#8220;It is a big issue for them.&#8221;
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WATCH: Renowned Yale Prof Leaves Darwinism, Says Intelligent Design ‘Absolutely Serious’ Theory

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A number of senators, including the vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, received a highly classified briefing from the United States Navy Thursday on the subject of &#8220;unidentified flying objects,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-briefs-us-senators/index.html">according to a report from CNN</a>.
The briefing stemmed from a news report that emerged earlier this month, suggesting that the U.S. Navy and other branches of the military have had a number of close encounters with &#8220;unidentified aircraft&#8221; that the military later labeled as &#8220;UFOs.&#8221; The briefing came at the request of &#8220;key oversight committees,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/19/warner-classified-briefing-ufos-1544273">Politico reports</a>.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) was among those selected to receive the classified briefing, though his spokesperson suggested that it wasn&#8217;t because of an interest in possible alien life, but rather a concern for the safety of military pilots in his constituency.
&#8220;If pilots at Oceana or elsewhere are reporting flight hazards that interfere with training or put them at risk, then Senator Warner wants answers. It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely &#8212; we can&#8217;t ask our pilots to put their lives at risk unnecessarily,&#8221; his spokeswoman told CNN Thursday.
The Navy confirmed that it was speaking with select legislators about the issue, but focused the exchange on the Navy&#8217;s efforts to identify and ultimately classify the &#8220;unidentified aircraft&#8221; and &#8220;unidentified flying objects&#8221; their pilots encounter.
&#8220;Navy officials did indeed meet with interested congressional members and staffers on Wednesday to provide a classified brief on efforts to understand and identify these threats to the safety and security of our aviators,&#8221; a spokesman for the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare told reporters. &#8220;Follow-up discussions with other interested staffers are scheduled for later today (Thursday, 20 June). Navy officials will continue to keep interested congressional members and staff informed. Given the classified nature of these discussions, we will not comment on the specific information provided in these Hill briefings.&#8221;
Interest in the U.S. military&#8217;s involvement with so-called &#8220;UFOs&#8221; piqued late in 2018, when a report in The New York Times revealed that the Pentagon had kept an &#8220;X-Files&#8221; office of sorts, designed to record and track military encounters with unidentified aircraft. The report was short on details of the encounters themselves, but did note that military pilots regularly reported interacting with odd aircraft and &#8220;unidentified flying objects,&#8221; including aircraft that seemed to move in ways that defied current technology.
In May,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html"> The New York Times published a second report</a>, this time detailing the experiences of several Navy pilots who claimed to have encountered aircraft flying well above 30,000 feet, but with no visible exhaust or heat signature. The same report indicated that back in April, the Navy had retooled its reporting policies for pilot-UFO encounters.
In both reports, military officials cautioned that &#8220;UFO&#8221; does not necessarily mean &#8220;alien spacecraft.&#8221; More likely, pilots reporting &#8220;UFOs&#8221; have had encounters with experimental technology, classified programs, or foreign aircraft. The reporting system, officially put into place in April, is supposed to help streamline how these encounters get reported, not necessarily to keep track of whether members of the U.S. military are routinely encountering alien life.
But that hasn&#8217;t stopped people &#8212; even formerly high level defense officials &#8212; from speculating.
&#8220;We know that UFOs exist. This is no longer an issue,&#8221; Christopher Mellon, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/u-s-senators-briefed-on-ufos-as-suspicions-grow-surrounding-naval-sightings">told Fox News in an interview</a>. &#8220;The issue is why are they here? Where are they coming from and what is the technology behind these devices that we are observing?&#8221;
The Navy says it will continue to brief senators on the UFO program in order to help neutralize potential safety hazards to government employees.

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Chicago&#8217;s Field Museum of Natural History is home to some of the world&#8217;s most treasured artifacts &#8212; mummies, rare gemstones, the taxidermied corpses of a pair of man-eating lions &#8212; and now, one huge, gender-neutral dinosaur skeleton.
<a href="https://arcdigital.media/the-case-of-sue-the-woke-dinosaur-52515d08ac64?sk=7308a27c609d6ecdb6f15155794d72a9">According to Arc Digital,</a> &#8220;Sue,&#8221; Field Museum&#8217;s Tyrannosaurus Rex &#8212; one of the most complete and largest T-Rex skeletons ever discovered &#8212; is working on becoming a &#8220;gender neutral&#8221; icon by adopting gender-neutral pronouns in her new private exhibit on the museum&#8217;s second floor.
Sue is not, in fact, gender neutral or gender fluid. The T-Rex skeleton, discovered in South Dakota in the 1990s, was either male or female. The scientists who discovered Sue believed the skeleton belonged to a female because female T-Rexes are larger than male T-Rexes, and Sue was one of the largest dinosaur skeletons ever found; she&#8217;s named &#8220;Sue&#8221; after Susan Hendrickson, who led the team that unearthed her.
But back in March 2017, Arc Digital reports, the museum decided to have a little fun, and in response to a question lobbed during a Twitter Q&amp;A, Sue claimed that she was &#8220;gender neutral&#8221; because her sex was unknown, and that she preferred the pronouns they/their/them.
By May 2017, though, Sue, who had graced the museum&#8217;s central rotunda for more than a decade, was due to move upstairs to make room for an even larger dinosaur skeleton, and when constructing her pernament home in the museum&#8217;s dinosaur exhibit, museum officials adopted Sue&#8217;s social media gender-neutral tendencies and made them official.
&#8220;In her new suite, some of the signage describing the fossil has adopted non-binary pronouns,&#8221; Arc Digital says. &#8220;One sign does make the distinction between SUE the museum ambassador/Twitter star and the fossil itself, noting that the fossil is properly referred to as &#8216;it.&#8217; But some of the rest of the signage uses &#8216;their&#8217; pronouns and seems more interested in teaching museum-goers about the trendy movement for acceptance of non-binary identity than it does about paleontology.&#8221;
In an interview with Them magazine, museum officials point out that docents and volunteers are asked to refer to Sue by her gender neutral pronouns, and that in Sue&#8217;s online presence &#8212; mostly on Twitter &#8212; she is a &#8220;gender-neutral&#8221; persona.
In the grand scheme, one gender-neutral dinosaur probably isn&#8217;t going to make much difference in how sex and gender are viewed by modern society, and the museum argues that the imaginary Sue the Dinosaur is entirely separate from the massive skeleton that serves as an example of T-Rex in the museum&#8217;s gallery. But it is a little weird that it would matter &#8212; or that a reputable scientific establishment would dabble in trendy, unscientific gender theory.
Plus, it&#8217;s not as though Sue doesn&#8217;t have a gender. The museum just can&#8217;t predict and confirm the dinosaur&#8217;s sex with any test currently in use. The only gender confirmation system available for Sue is to test whether or not she was carrying eggs at the time of her death. She was not, but that doesn&#8217;t conclusively rule out that Sue was a female, just that she wasn&#8217;t currently fertile when she passed on.

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At least six Los Angeles Police Department officers from the same downtown precinct are showing signs of typhoid fever and a &#8220;typhus-like&#8221; illness after working in or near the city&#8217;s growing homeless encampment.
Late last week, radio host Dr. Drew Pinsky <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/dr-drew-says-third-world-countries-would-be-insulted-to-be-compared-with-los-angeles">made headlines declaring</a> that Los Angeles is the epicenter of a &#8220;public health emergency&#8221; stemming from a growing homeless population that finds nothing wrong with setting up permanent encampments across large swaths of the city&#8217;s downtown area, and cautioned that, unless city officials took immediate action, it&#8217;s likely the homeless population in LA could see an outbreak of the bubonic plague.
The plague, of course, killed tens of millions across Europe in the 14th century, before the advent of public sanitation and clean water systems. But as Pinksy recalled to Fox News host Laura Ingraham last week, Los Angeles is suffering from a complete lack of a sanitation strategy, and just as these serious communicable diseases seem to be taking root, the city council is considering a ban or moratorium on using rat poison.
The six LAPD officers include at least one detective who has already been diagnosed with typhoid fever. The city&#8217;s police union announced late Saturday that five others are showing symptoms of the same rare illness.
Typhus and typhoid fever are spread through contaminated food and water, and through fleas and ticks. The six officers, who work at the city&#8217;s Central Division Station, may have come in contact with the disease while policing the city&#8217;s growing homeless encampments &#8212; particularly on Skid Row, which is in the Central Division&#8217;s district &#8212; or simply from interacting within the station itself. A state investigation into conditions in and around the Central Division Station, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/dr-drew-says-third-world-countries-would-be-insulted-to-be-compared-with-los-angeles">the Associated Press reports</a>, turned up a myriad of public health issues, landing the building a $5,000 fine and an order to clean up immediately.
But the city&#8217;s police officer&#8217;s union says it isn&#8217;t that simple. Los Angeles needs to get serious about breaking up homeless encampments &#8212; even if they feel a sense of progressive empathy over them &#8212; before they become a widespread public health hazard.
In addition to typhus and typhoid fever &#8212; and potentially the plague &#8212; officers of LAPD&#8217;s Central Division Station contend routinely with cases of Hepatitis A and staph infections, a union spokesperson said in a press conference Saturday.
&#8220;The last thing I need is my members coming to work worried about contracting an infectious disease and bringing it home to their families,&#8221; the spokesperson told reporters.
Infectious disease experts told the Associated Press that conditions inside the station would have had a marked effect on the spread of illnesses like typhus. The police union agrees and believes the city of Los Angeles should make keeping police officers safe and improving their working conditions at top priority.
Los Angeles, of course, isn&#8217;t the only city facing these kinds of problems &#8212; and it certainly isn&#8217;t the first time Los Angeles has faced typhus and typhoid fever. Several years ago, when the homeless population temporarily exploded, LA faced a small outbreak of the disease that led to a massive cleanup. This time around, though, like its sister city, San Francisco, California, Los Angeles&#8217; city government isn&#8217;t chomping at the bit to address the root cause of the problem: rampant homelessness.
In San Francisco, there is a similar threat of disease, particularly given that sidewalks and public ways across the city are littered with human waste, and the homeless encampments there have gotten so crowded that some members of the transient population are now building makeshift boats so that they can live in San Francisco&#8217;s famous bay.

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While left-wing activists often accuse conservatives of being &#8220;science deniers&#8221; when it comes to global warming, one biology professor at Williams College has noticed a troubling trend since the election of Donald Trump: students&#8217; zealous embrace of social justice ideology is increasingly resulting in &#8220;denialism&#8221; when it comes to well-established biological ideas.
In an op-ed for The Atlantic titled &#8220;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/self-censorship-campus-bad-science/589969/">Self-censorship on Campus is Bad for Science</a>,&#8221; Biology Professor Luana Maroja &#8212; who has found herself in the middle of social justice outrage in the past, and <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/this-scientist-took-on-student-activists-who-cheered-for-censorship-now-shes-refuting-their-violence-claims/">pushed back</a> (h/t <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2019/05/29/williams-college-professor-students-social-justice-ideology-trumps-science/">John Sexton</a>) &#8212; describes a shift she&#8217;s witnessed among a growing number of her students since Trump won the presidency.
&#8220;At that moment, political tensions were running high on our campus. And well-established scientific ideas that I&#8217;d been teaching for years suddenly met with stiff ideological resistance,&#8221; she writes. Among those ideas is the concept of heritability, &#8220;the degree to which offspring genetically resemble their parents,&#8221; both physically and in behavior.
&#8220;In a classroom discussion, I noted that researchers have measured a large average difference in IQ between the inhabitants of the United States and those of my home country, Brazil,&#8221; Maroja writes. &#8220;I challenged the supposed intelligence differential between Americans and Brazilians. I asked students to think about the limitations of the data, which do not control for environmental differences, and explained that the raw numbers say nothing about whether observed differences are indeed &#8216;inborn&#8217;&#8212;that is, genetic.&#8221;
Even though she specifically challenges the reductive and potentially racist conclusions that some might reach, many of her students, &#8220;without any evidence,&#8221; reject the very notion of scientifically conducted IQ tests, declaring them to be bogus science, &#8220;invented to ostracize minority groups,&#8221; and refuse to accept the well-established idea that IQ is partly influenced by genetics. She found similar pushback from students about any scientific studies about inherent differences between men and women and different races.
&#8220;Similar biological denialism exists about nearly any observed difference between human groups, including those between males and females,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;Unfortunately, students push back against these phenomena not by using scientific arguments, but by employing an a priori moral commitment to equality, anti-racism, and anti-sexism. They resort to denialism to protect themselves from having to confront a worldview they reject&#8212;that certain differences between groups may be based partly on biology. This denialism manifests itself at times in classroom discussions and in emails in which students explain at length why I should not be teaching the topic.&#8221;
The &#8220;denialism&#8221; at times goes as far as even rejecting the notion that people have a biological instinct to protect their kin because some students thought it was Maroja &#8220;actually endorsing Trump&#8217;s hiring of his family.&#8221;
She goes on to address the concept that infamously got James Damore fired: that some genetic differences might lead to disproportionate representation of males or females in some fields, particularly STEM fields. For social justice activists, since all people are supposedly &#8220;blank slates,&#8221; the only explanation for more men being in STEM fields than women is that they are &#8220;cesspools of sex discrimination.&#8221;
&#8220;This is what happens when ideology replaces biology,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;It&#8217;s become taboo to even mention the possibility that men and women might have different preferences.&#8221; <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/self-censorship-campus-bad-science/589969/">Read the full op-ed here</a>.
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Tornadoes ripped through Oklahoma and Missouri overnight Saturday night, leaving at least two dead, dozens injured, and more missing.
Oklahoma has been raked by severe weather all week, with multiple incidents of tornadoes over the course of several days, but Saturday night, large, F3 tornadoes formed across the state, as well as across the Texas panhandle and parts of Missouri.
<a href="https://weather.com/news/news/2019-05-26-oklahoma-tornadoes-el-reno-sapulpa">The Weather Channel reports</a> that the first tornado touched down in El Reno, Oklahoma &#8212; about 25 minutes outside Oklahoma City &#8212; just after 10:30 p.m. Two people who were taking shelter in their mobile home were killed and at least 30 more were injured when the same formation tore through a motel at the corner of Interstate 40 and U.S. Highway 81. Some of the injuries were deemed &#8220;critical&#8221; but no specifics were given about victims&#8217; injuries.
The City of El Reno has established a GoFundMe to help residents affected by the tornado, which lasted only &#8220;5 to 10 minutes&#8221; but lofted debris &#8220;up to a height of 7,000 feet,&#8221; ripping mobile homes from their foundations and tearing through streets and highways.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a tragic scene out there,&#8221; El Reno Mayor Matt White told journalists Sunday morning. &#8220;People have absolutely lost everything.&#8221;
&#8220;The thing about El Reno is we are more than a community, we are a family. &#8230; We&#8217;re going to overcome this. It&#8217;s so devastating to see the loss out there,&#8221; White later added.
Areas in metropolitan Oklahoma City also reported damage from the high winds and heavy rain that followed the tornado, including &#8220;trees snapped in half&#8221; and blown-out windows.
A second tornado scraped through the suburbs of Tulsa, Oklahoma, causing damage but, so far, no reported injuries. Officials are still determining the strength of that weather formation. That tornado comes on the heels of days of rain that forced the evacuation of hundreds of Tulsa residents. More rain is expected this week.
Missouri, Kansas, and the Texas panhandle also suffered significant storm damage on Friday, and then again overnight Saturday to Sunday, the latest incidents in a week of weather that has seen back-to-back severe storms and tornadoes &#8212; a weather pattern that meteorologists <a href="https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article230790399.html">told the Kansas City Star</a> repeats itself every 15-20 years, leaving typically hardy mid-westerners tired and weather-weary.
&#8220;[A]s the clock ticked toward midnight, a twister with EF-3 winds in excess of 135 miles per hour cut a path through Jefferson City, the state&#8217;s capital, heaving bricks and turning homes into dollhouses ripped open to the sky,&#8221; the Kansas City Star reported on the severe weather that ripped through Friday. <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/monster-tornado-that-ripped-20-mile-trail-of-destruction-through-missouri-capital-was-almost-a-mile-wide/70008358">Three people were left dead Friday night</a> after the same tornado destroyed Golden, Missouri, AccuWeather adds.
Although some politicians have seized on the record-breaking weather as proof of &#8220;climate change,&#8221; local meteorologists say that that explanation is somewhat lacking. Certainly, global warming may cause incremental temperature shifts that ultimately affect weather patterns, but there is &#8220;no clear link&#8221; between global warming and the number of tornadoes that hit a given area of the United States.
Tornado alley, though &#8212; the area of the United States where severe weather is more likely &#8212; is shifting, as is tornado season. Areas to the south and east are now more likely to experience tornadoes alongside the central plains states, and tornadoes begin forming in early May now, rather than in early June.
Scientists tell the Kansas City Star that they&#8217;re not willing to make any proclamations as to why &#8220;Tornado Alley&#8221; is slowly relocating, and while it may be climate motivated, much more research is needed.

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