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  • “We’re Toast”: AI Godfather Says AI Is Now Conscious, and May Kill Us If We’re Not Friendly

    By Selwyn Duke Forget that uber-thin-skinned narcissistic neighbor — are we now going to have to walk on eggs around artificial intelligence (AI), too? It’s a staggering thought, but also, essentially, the claim of British-Canadian computer scientist Professor Geoffrey Hinton. Hinton is no fly-by-night character, either — the 78-year-old Nobel laureate’s work on neural networks…

  • Follow the Science … to God? The New Atheism Is Being Disproven

    By Selwyn Duke A story in the news some days ago held that Noah’s ark’s resting place had been “100% confirmed.” This wasn’t actually true. What is, however, is that science is proving something else: “New Atheism’s” ship has sailed — and maybe even sunk. Almost a generation ago now, in 2006, biologist Richard Dawkins…

  • Daycare Teacher Babysits Low-tech, “No Screens” Kids; Learns a Scary Lesson

    By Selwyn Duke If a child “vegs” in front of a TV five hours a day, we’ll consider it problematic. But what about when that child is on other screens — i.e., electronic devices — five hours daily? Is that any less troubling? And what’s the ultimate result? Are smartphones yielding stupid kids? A childcare…

  • Is AI Creating a “Society of Cheats” — and Incompetents?

    By Selwyn Duke It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.” Virtue in the people is the root of the tree. Take care of that and all else falls into place. The…

  • Biden-era Woke Rules are Shutting Down Real Science — and Museum Displays

    By Selwyn Duke The Soviets tried creating ape-human hybrids and embraced Lysenkoism, which held that acquired traits could be inherited. Nazi academics, such as Philipp Lenard, promoted the idea that science itself had racial character. Looking back on such pseudo-science, we now just shake our heads. Yet those who shake their fists at the heavens…

  • Charles Murray’s Budding Faith: Is Science Finally Finding God?

    By Selwyn Duke “Sometimes smart people have a hard time believing stuff that everybody else knows.” So said the condemned (and possessed) convict in the “religious” film Nefarious (2023) to his self-assured atheist psychiatrist. Charles Murray, the famed political scientist and successful author, can certainly relate to this. Quoting his wife on religion, he stated…

  • An “Ancient Killer” Returns to California — Courtesy of Illegal Aliens?

    By Selwyn Duke If your three children all got sick the day after a new kid came over to play, you’d have a decent clue about who the vector of disease was. This comes to mind with the reintroduction in California of an ancient killer: tuberculosis (TB). The world’s deadliest infectious disease, TB caused an…

  • Digital Stepford Wives? Men Are Falling in Love With AI-generated Female Influencers

    By Selwyn Duke In the “old” days of the internet, you perhaps had to be wary of some creep in a chat masquerading as an appealing romantic interest. But that was small ball. Today some men are falling for gorgeous female “influencers” — who happen to be generated via artificial intelligence (AI). The kicker: Some…

  • New Study: Myocarditis Affects ONLY Covid “Vaccinated” Youths

    By Selwyn Duke An analysis of the first 15 months of the Covid pandemic in Germany, population 84 million, found that zero healthy children died of the disease. In this vein, epidemiologist Dr. Knut Wittkowski stated in March-May 2020 that children would be largely unaffected by Covid. The response was censorship (e.g., YouTube removed an interview Wittkowski gave from…

  • Ask the Experts — and Get Guided Toward Destruction?

    By Selwyn Duke Vaccinated people “do not carry the virus, [and] don’t get sick” said then-CDC Director Rochelle Walensky in 2021. She also implied that they couldn’t transmit Covid. The CDC had to walk her “expert” claims back mere days later. As we now know, “vaccinated” people could contract and spread the virus. Of course, you could…