Submit! Doctor’s Orders

December 23, 2021   |  

Well, here’s a slap in America’s face. The American Medical Association (AMA) has recently released a document with guidance to help physicians in their conversations with patients. They are recommending the use of “equity-focused, first-person language.” The document proposes that commonly used language ought to be replaced using words inspired…
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Check Your Beliefs at the Door

December 16, 2021   |  

This past September, Lawrence Revell, the Chief of Police of Tallahassee, Florida (where I live), spoke at a law enforcement conference at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in North Carolina. Revell is a Christian, and doesn’t shy away from expressing his faith to those who wish to engage him…
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Now Whose Cancelled?

December 2, 2021   |  

That’s the problem you run into when you try to promote beliefs and policies that don’t align with reality. At some point the lies accumulate to a point that they can no longer be hidden or defended. Cancel culture is built on lies. It is a societal phenomenon that has…
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How Does a White Person Become Less White?

November 27, 2021   |  

When the Coca-Cola company began conducting seminars for their employees that stressed the need for white people to “try to be less white,” it created a firestorm that resulted in calls for boycotts. Their stated purpose for having this kind of training was to try to address the problem of…
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Social Justice Question: Is Equity the Same as Equality?

November 18, 2021   |  

Fire the teachers!!! In March, an advisory board for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia called for teachers to be dismissed if they criticize – even in private – equity training. So what could be wrong with “equity training?” Why would anyone, especially teachers, want to criticize an attempt to…
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Why Evolution Is So Important to Atheists

November 4, 2021   |  

The Conversation is a network of not-for-profit media outlets that publish news stories on the internet that are written by academic experts and researchers. On their website, they explain that their purpose is to provide access to quality explanatory journalism. In some cases, academics merely write articles and post them…
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Human Heads and Tissue for Humanized Mice

October 28, 2021   |  

Have you ever heard of “humanized mice?” Well, it is an actual thing. Humanized mice are created by surgical implantations of human tissue into mice that have been genetically mutated in a way that blocks the development of the mouse’s immune system. This allows the implanted human tissues to grow…
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