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By Selwyn Duke We discussed the proposal for a $50 minimum wage by Rep. Barbara Lee, who, rumor has it, will star in a remake of the film A Beautiful Mind. (Uh, you may not want to take the last part there seriously.) If you want to listen to just my segment, right click on…

By Selwyn Duke “Consensus is the business of politics,” said late author Michael Crichton in 2003. “Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right.” While true, being right and doing actual science may get you arrested under a bill that just passed in France’s National Assembly — if your activities…

By Selwyn Duke It’s quite timely that after writing on article yesterday on media bias, the following headline popped up on my MSN homepage: “Donald Trump’s cognitive decline worse than Joe Biden’s due to 2 signs, professor says.” Notice what’s assumed (and what’s assumed is learned best) in the above headline: We’re to take it…

By Selwyn Duke Much as our esteemed psychological profession defines “gender dysphoria,” there’s also a phenomenon known as “species dysphoria.” I do understand that among mental-health practitioners it’s known as “Species Identity Disorder” (or “clinical lycanthropy”), but give it time. “Gender dysphoria” used to be “Gender Identity Disorder” (and should be “Sexual Identity Disorder”) until…

By Selwyn Duke For every Republican in newsrooms, there are 10 Democrats,” famed investigative journalist John Stossel recently pointed out. That this imbalance exists isn’t new — nor is it a groundbreaking revelation that it results in profound media bias. Nonetheless, the consequent propaganda is still effective; so much so that, related Professor Tim Groseclose…

By Selwyn Duke It’s called “the narrative” — which is usually just a polite name for a fashionable lie. A black Ivy League academic has learned the price of contradicting cherished narratives, too: threat to life and limb. In fact, after releasing a credible study finding “no evidence of racial bias” in police shootings, Harvard…

By Selwyn Duke Unlike the avowedly atheistic Soviets, the WWII-era Nazis didn’t bluntly try to suppress Christianity. Rather, they sought to reinvent it for their own purposes, conjuring up something called “Positive Christianity,” which held that Jesus was a Nordic character persecuted by a Jewish establishment. Those National Socialists and their particular perversion of faith…

By Selwyn Duke When discussing shootings’ causes, conservatives will say it’s the people, not the guns; liberals will focus on the guns, not the people. And does it not accord with the latter theory when, in the Kansas City shooting’s wake, authorities are withholding the identities of the “people” responsible and are fixating on guns?…

By Selwyn Duke It took man millennia to advance from superstition to the scientific method. Now it might take the atavistic Biden administration only a moment to regress. Some may thus conclude with the revelation that the “Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could soon employ ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ in their…

By Selwyn Duke When arguing against a given minimum wage (e.g., $15/hour), late radio giant Rush Limbaugh would sometimes rhetorically ask: Why stop there? If that amount is good, wouldn’t a $50 minimum wage be even better? It’s unknown whether Limbaugh would’ve even suspected that a statist would make his “illustrating absurdity by being absurd” example a…