By Selwyn Duke

The Scientific Method, originated 400 years ago, is a major reason we have our modern world, with its high technology, long lifespans, robust populations, and luxuries. Given this, you’d think its place in education would be secure.

You’d be wrong.

In fact, it had been completely removed from the North Carolina K-12 Science Standards, supplanted by something called “Science and Engineering Practices” (SEP). And with what, precisely, does SEP replace the Scientific Method (SM)?

Computer models, according to reports.

Hey, what could possibly go wrong?

The good news: The SM has since been restored in North Carolina’s schools, thanks to the efforts of one concerned scientist. But here’s what many may find distressing:

Of the 14,000 “inputs” N.C. officials received about the curriculum, that lone scientist, physicist John Droz, was the only one who complained about the SM’s nixing.

What’s more, the battle against this attack on science is just beginning. For the pedagogy of which SEP is a part, “Next Generation Science Standards” (NGSS), is being embraced by education bureaucracies in 45 states.

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By Selwyn Duke

Perhaps the most politically incorrect thing you could do in this cancel-culture age, something taking you so far outside the Overton Window that you couldn’t even peek through it, is praise Adolf Hitler. Why, when a couple of schemers in the 1967 black comedy The Producers sought to create a stage musical designed to fail, celebrating Hitler was the very topic they chose.

It’s unknown if The New York Times’ leadership had the movie in mind — to the schemers’ dismay, their production became an unexpected comic hit — when making a recent move: rehiring a Hitler-praising journalist. What’s for sure in this case, especially now that the paper is defending its decision, is that no one is laughing.

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By Selwyn Duke

The pseudo-elites in media, politics, and elsewhere absolutely despise seeing X users peddle disinformation.

That’s a role, they apparently believe, that should be left to the professionals.

They are better at it, too. How do you think they spread fake news so much more effectively?

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By Selwyn Duke

“[W]hat happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on? This is the kind of case that ends careers.”

So lamented Hennepin County, Minnesota, medical examiner Dr. Andrew Baker after autopsying George Floyd’s body, according to new witness testimony. This is significant, of course, as Baker’s “findings” were used to help put a man in prison for 40 years — and for something else as well.

Floyd’s case was made a pretext for a further left-wing transformation of our whole country.

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By Selwyn Duke

No matter which prominent side wins in our immigration debates, the U.S. loses for a simple reason: The contest pits people who hate the point against people who miss the point.

On one side are the large-I Immigrationists, individuals who behave as if immigration is always good, always necessary, must never be questioned and must be the one constant in an otherwise ever-changing universe of policy; they’re usually identified as “leftists.” On the other are small-i immigrationists, people who believe immigration is generally good, generally necessary, should never be questioned in principle and must in some form be the one constant in an otherwise ever-changing universe of policy; they’re usually identified as “conservatives.”

The debate between the two sides often goes like this: Leftists welcome inundation with even uneducated, unskilled foreigners (as long as the aliens aren’t sent to their neighborhood; see Martha’s Vineyard et al.) with the argument “Our strength lies in our diversity!” Conservatives counter this by reassuring all and sundry “I’m all for immigration!” “But,” they add, “it should be done legally and be merit based, with possession of economically valuable skills a prerequisite for entry.”

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By Selwyn Duke

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By Selwyn Duke

How would it go over if people said that white kids could only be instructed by white guides and educators and then fired non-white employees on that basis? What would be the reaction if the justification was, “Well, white kids just can’t relate to non-white staff?”

This hasn’t happened, of course — but the reverse has. A recent example is the axing of white museum docents (volunteer guides) in the name of prejudice euphemized as “diversity.”

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By Selwyn Duke

“Parting is such sweet sorrow” is a Shakespearean sentiment that, a new study shows, large numbers of Americans do not share. In fact, not only do high percentages of both Republicans and Democrats want to divide our country into “red” and “blue” states, but many among them want to give the other side a punch in the mouth before parting ways.

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By Selwyn Duke

Why did a huge German study of 45,000 immigrant youths find that while increasing religiosity among Christian youths made them less violent, increasing religiosity among Muslim youths actually made them more violent? Egyptian scholar Dr. Ahmed Abdu‘ Maher thinks he knows, and he’s been condemned and even sentenced to five years’ prison time (and then pardoned) for voicing his theory. But as with the Howard Beale character in 1976’s Network, Maher may now be saying, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!” In fact, the reformer has just released a video in which he rebukes his critics and states that he does nothing but quote the books of the Islamic canon they hold so dear.

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By Selwyn Duke

It’s bad enough when Americans hear, and have good reason to believe, “Laws are only for the little people.” But there’s perhaps an even more bitter pill:

Having good reason to believe laws are also only for citizens.

This very much appears the case, too, when hearing endless excuses for why the pseudo-elites won’t deport illegal aliens and pondering that instead of there being “white privilege,” there’s flight privilege.

That is, take flight from your nation and invade another and privileges will be yours — as is happening in Illinois, where illegals are now getting money previously earmarked for needy citizens.

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