Not only was the statement wrong in 1993, when the Supreme Court decided the famous Daubert case, it was wrong 20 years later, in 2013, when the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved  Diclegis, a combination of doxylamine succinate and pyridoxine hydrochloride, the essential ingredients in Bendectin, for sale in the United States, for pregnant women experiencing nausea and vomiting.[16] The return of Bendectin to the market, although under a different name, was nothing less… [read post]

Greenland’s argument provides an important corrective to the rhetoric of Oreskes, Cranor, Michaels, Egilman, and others on “manufacturing doubt”: “Never force a choice among competing theories; always maintain the option of concluding that more research is needed before a defensible choice can be made. [read post]

  Divine wisdom is also a birthright for everyone and everything.[16] Put differently, Christians do not shy away from the reality of evil, and in particular from the fact that evil is less about individual failures than about collective indifference and rationalization of wrongdoing.[17]  Cyber-utopian views asserting that online communities will naturally affiliate in a cooperative manner[18] have been undermined by recent facts, to be sure, but a Christian perspective on virtue… [read post]