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Real Life Planet of the Apes? Human-Monkey Chimeras Cause Alarm

May 5th, 2021

Has science gone too far? Scientists have finally created a human-monkey embryo hybrid that lived for nearly three weeks. They say it will have all sorts of medical benefits, but others say we really shouldn't play God.

Science & Technology 77 Comments

Children’s Hospital Eliminates Gender Markers from Patient Wristbands

September 25th, 2018

Children’s Hospital of Colorado has found itself at the center of controversy after a recent announcement that it will no longer be printing gender markers on the wristbands it gives to patients. LGBTQ groups support the decision, but critics say it could prove dangerous.

LGBTQ & Human Rights 65 Comments

Texas Wrangles Over Evolution and Creationism

September 25th, 2013

For several years, the U.S. state of Texas has been embroiled in a struggle between teaching evolution and creationism in public schools. Now, with new standards adopted by the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), it appears the state may be opening the door

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Bill Nye and the Harms and Merits of Creationism

August 29th, 2012

Mechanical engineer Bill Nye has recently offered that parents should not be pressuring their children to believe in Creationism in a popular new video called "Creationism Is Not Appropriate for Children."

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Sex, Race, and the Biology Excuse

October 20th, 2011

The emerging New Traditionalist movement has been pining for a return to a bygone era characterized by old-fashioned racial and sexual roles, but a new host of critics are raising their voices in dissent.

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