Category Archives: Science & Faith

Science & Conspiracy

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Daniel Pipes: The polio disease was on the verge of eradication when Ibrahim Datti Ahmed, president of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria and a physician, suggested at about this time in 2003 that the vaccination program in his … Continue reading →

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Earth Day!

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Over at AEI Mark Perry celebrates Earth Day with quotes from Steven Landsburg’s book The Armchair Economist, including this: [E]nvironmentalists — at least the ones I have met — have no real interest in maintaining the … Continue reading →

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Leon Kass is not alone (Sadly)

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

Via Andrew Sullivan we have this piece by William B. Hurlbut, Consulting Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University Medical Center, a man of science, who is, it turns out, also a fan of the benevolently deranged Francis of … Continue reading →

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Such Sweet Suffering

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

The Wall Street Journal has interviewed “eminent bioethicist” (itself a contradiction in terms) Leon Kass. The trigger was the Gosnell trial, but it was this aspect of Kass’s remarks that drew my attention: Dr. Kass sometimes finds himself at odds … Continue reading →

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Trickster Padre

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Andrew Stuttaford

I happened to come across this 2011 piece by CSI’s Joe Nickell the other day: …In fact, notwithstanding the claims in uncritical biographies, Pio’s stigmata devolved—from bleeding wounds that could easily have been self-inflicted (like those of many fake stigmatists … Continue reading →

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Testing the Flagship

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: Kyle Plotkin (Gov Jindal’s communications director) responds to my earlier post on the Guardian’s report on Louisiana’s voucher schools as follows (I am publishing this with his permission): This is a complete red herring attack from … Continue reading →

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Time to Fix the Flagship

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Cross-posted on the Corner: If there’s a policy that deserves to be a winner for the GOP (as well as being a thoroughly good thing in its own right), it is school choice and Bobby Jindal has done well to … Continue reading →

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Et Tu Obama?

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Slate’s Daniel Engber sighs over Rubio’s geology problems, but then gives us this extract from a Q&A with then Senator Obama at the Compassion Forum ( know, I know) at Messiah College in Grantham, Pa. on April 13, 2008: Q: … Continue reading →

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Lies, All Lies, I Tell Ya

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

It’s no news that Georgian congressman Paul Broun is a strange bird (he’s the clown who wanted to ban Playboy from the PX), well, here he is again (TPM reports): Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) tore into scientists as tools of … Continue reading →

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Must Try Harder

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Andrew Stuttaford

Over at Patheos, Kathy Schiffer is running a series on the “Best 100 Catholic Speakers” and here she is with seminary professor Dr. Janet Smith, author of Contraception: Why Not? Choice quote from Dr. Smith: I think contraception is an … Continue reading →

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