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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Social Science’s False Foundation

October 14, 2021   |  

Will Gervais is a senior lecturer in psychology at Brunel University London. He and some of his colleagues conducted a study recently to assess “the degree to which people hold supernatural beliefs.” They were trying to measure how religion works in human societies. To conduct their research, they surveyed a…
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Modern Sex Ed

September 17, 2021   |  

Justine Ang Fonte is a self described sex-positive educator. She has been responsible for developing sex education curriculum for students from Kindergarten through 12th grade. Some of her special trainings include such topics as pornography literacy and consent. Her stated goal is to teach healthy sexuality, and she does that…
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Trust the Kids and Don’t Tell the Parents

September 9, 2021   |  

There is a movement in certain sectors to keep parents of school children from knowing what the kids are being taught, and hiding other kinds of things from them, as well. For instance, during the pandemic, kids were being taught online and there were some teachers who tried to prevent…
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