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  • The Autism Explosion: Is It Vaccines, Fluoride — or Modern Society?

    By Selwyn Duke Common sense is “that forgotten branch of psychology,” observed philosopher G.K. Chesterton in the early 1900s. One could wonder what he’d say today, with “psychology” — which means “study of the soul” — being both soulless and ubiquitous. And it being so widespread is a reason, it’s said, that autism diagnoses are…

  • Stereotypes or Reality? Study: 6-year-olds Believe Boys Are Better at Computing and Engineering

    By Selwyn Duke Back in 2005, while explaining why so few women occupied top science positions, economist Lawrence Summers suggested it could partially have to do with “issues of intrinsic aptitude.” It was one reason why he was forced from his Harvard presidency position the next year. And if this standard still holds today, a…

  • Cell Phones Have Been Called “Digital Heroin.” So, Should We Ban Them in School?

    By Selwyn Duke “There was a time, not that many years ago, really, when we would actually get into an argument because we didn’t want to answer the phone,” quite funny and mostly clean comedian James Gregory once said during an act. “It’d be like, ‘You get it; I got it last time!’” Boy, the world sure…

  • The LEGAL Election Rigging That’s Stealing Our “Democracy”

    By Selwyn Duke There’s much talk today about “threats to our democracy.” Yet do you know that foreign entities such as China, Russia, and Iran are feeding mis- and dis-information to the American electorate in order to influence our political outcomes? When the USSR did this (without having social media as vehicles), it was called…

  • Leftist News Org Urges Biden Campaign to Use AI to Fool Public About Joe’s Senility

    By Selwyn Duke “Fool me once, shame on you,” the saying goes; “fool me twice, it’s AI.” Okay, that’s not really the saying, but it might be the reality with Joe Biden if his campaign acts on a leftist news organization’s advice: Use artificial intelligence (AI) to trick the public into thinking Biden is not exhibiting…

  • Chinese Espionage: Was the OPM “Hack” Not a Hack, but Treason?

    By Selwyn Duke Despite its importance, there’s a story that’s not getting out to the public — at least not as quickly as data that should be secret is getting out to the Chinese. Many of you have heard about the supposed “hack” of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in which the Chinese were…

  • Obama’s Justice Dept. Wants Names of Internet Commenters Who Trashed Judge

    By Selwyn Duke In an age where a British politician was arrested for publicly quoting legendary statesman Winston Churchill, it’s not surprising that a loose Internet comment can get a person in trouble. And this may be what’s happening in the case of six Internet posters whom the federal government believes issued “threats” against a…

  • Silicon Valley Girls: Do Women Need Affirmative Action in Tech Industries?

    By Selwyn Duke It was a couple of decades ago now that Mattel got in trouble for making Barbie dolls that exclaimed, “Math class is tough!” The company had done market research, the story goes, and found the aforementioned was one of young girls’ laments. But it appears that changing toys hasn’t changed reality. Because…

  • How Facebook Can Manipulate the November Election

    By Selwyn Duke It was the focus of the film The Social Network, but critics say that Facebook has become a political network — one that is two-faced and facing left. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has long been pushing amnesty and targeting politicians who oppose it. Now, warns American Thinker’s Jonathon Moseley, Facebook is going…

  • Google’s War on Guns

    By Selwyn Duke While its corporate motto is “Don’t be evil,” its critics might say “Don’t be Google.” And this is especially true now that Google is saying “Don’t buy guns.” The search giant has announced that, starting in September, it will ban advertising of firearms, ammunition, and gun paraphernalia. As Google Support writes on…