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After reading American journalist Pam Winnick's A Jealous God (Nelson, 2005), I informed her that I wish I had written it.

I've sometimes said that Darwinism is the Enron of biology, but I hadn't realized that the Enron guys themselves were actually Darwin freaks. A friend tells me, re the Enron documentary, The Smartest Guys in the Room, Of interest to me was the unapologetically explicit philosophy of Darwinism which was prevalent at Enron from top management to commodity traders. Hmmm.

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"Some researchers think that the evolution of languages can be understood by treating them like genomes — but many linguists don't want to hear about it" Emma Marris reports in Nature News. (Paywall)
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Another blogger, JJS P Eng of Evolution Engineered, writes , in answer to my question, is there any actual use for the planet Mercury?

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Megan Ogilvie, health reporter for the Toronto Star, reported recently on Internet-marketed placebos for kids.

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Obecalp is nothing more than a fruit-flavoured sugar pill meant to calm and soothe a child using the power of placebo. Though it may seem harmless, it raises a flurry of ethical questions about whether it conditions kids to always look for a cure in a pill.

Here’s patent attorney Roddy Bullock on the nerve of the Bayou swamp monsters daring to question Darwin:

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A pile of interesting new findings from the planet Mercury:

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Floyd and Mary Beth Brown are pretty happy with the new Louisiana academic freedom bill that would permit teachers to discuss reasons why Darwin's theory of evolution might not be correct:

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He who sups with the devil must bring a long spoon. - proverb
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