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Arkansas governor just signed a bill into law that ban all abortions, except when neccessary to save the mother's life. There is no except for cases of rape and incest. https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975546070/arkansas-passes-near-total-abortion-ban-as-lawmakers-push-for-supreme-court-case...

I'm not interested in unity with Trump supporters. They are the same people they were before the election, the source of most of the harm done in past 4 years, and they will find another conduit to exert their agenda. I don't care that they are my fellow Americans, coworkers, neighbors, and...

When a president engages in unprecedented levels of lethal anti-science propaganda, you get unprecedented response from the scientific community. Earlier this past week Scientific American broke a 175 year tradition of not endorsing political candidates to try and ensure Trump's defeat. Also...

Two separate national surveys, both done within the past couple months paint an interesting picture and suggest that Biden and the DNC are correct to embrace major police reform but not to embrace the "defund the police" rhetoric, which is highly unpopular even with Democrats and Black...

A study found that 43% of white students admitted to Harvard were admitted for reasons other than academic qualifications, such as legacy, $ donors, and children of faculty. 75% of them would not have been admitted based upon their academic credentials. Given that whites are about 50% of all...

Just to get it immediately out of the way, there is no way that a Biden presidency wouldn't be better than another 4 years of white supremacy enabling, explicitly pro-fascist policing Trump. I quite frankly can't imagine anything Biden could plausibly do to make himself even an equal let alone...

This poll is about the degree of support for the various types of civil unrest happening in reaction to the Floyd murder. If you think that racism-fueled police brutality is NOT even generally a problem in the US, then only select option 1. The other options all assume that you do think...

I am curious how many people here personally know someone whose been diagnosed with the disease, limiting it only to people you had actually previously met and interacted with (not just a friend of a friend you were told about). One thing about this virus is that it's all about the potential...

So, a philosophy prof in the UK has published an essayhttps://aeon.co/essays/how-pornography-works-to-undermine-womens-freedom-of-speech?fbclid=IwAR02VVuAO2fzWGfCEqRChOExr1m-MbwcOk5DR5go0pi9ABVhxDEiXHvNV84 that asserts that pornography in undermining women's free speech. The argument starts...

This is NOT a thread to debate whether abortion should be legal or is moral, b/c any such debate ultimately rests upon subjective moral values. Rather it's a thread about establishing the scientific facts that have some logical relevance either to the arguments made about abortion or that help...

The Sun is not exactly at the center of Earth's orbit, and the Southern Hemisphere's December Summers are closer to the sun than is the June Summer of the Northern Hemisphere. Could this have any possible effect on day length? IOW, is the day length at 48 degrees North during the June Solstice...

The hijab issue has created a divide among liberals and feminists who otherwise share a desire to reduce the oppression of women. Those who focus upon the women forced to wear it, see it as a symbol of oppression. Those who focus on the women who choose to wear it, especially in western...

Ignore title. Bad source, wrong math. His trade policies are costing Americans $100 billion annually, via a combo of higher prices and $28 billion in farm subsidies so he can lie and pretend he is creating jobs when he would be costing them if not for giving farms a form of basic income...

So, there is a story making the rounds about a pastor who told a black woman from a maid service that she couldn't clean his home because his dog was racist. This thread is not about that story in particular, but about the more general idea of dogs displaying aggression towards strangers based...

So, I encountered a prototypical pseudo-science racist (aka, alt-righter Trump supporter) who put forth several of standard tropes of this dogma that we hear often and which have been presented here by various folks at different times. They included fallacies and unscientific nonsense such as...

Under the dishonest guise of "honoring America", Trump is putting on a massive self-promoting fundraiser to which he is giving his big donors VIP tickets. He's paying for this event in part by stealing 2.5 million in entrance fees collected by the country's National Parks, plus additional...

So it's been asked here and within philosophy generally, what would qualify as convincing evidence of God to a skeptic not ideologically inclined to believe? I thought of something that would be rather compelling. Suppose one day every person on the planet simultaneously saw the face and heard...

So, it will surprise no one here to learn that men of all ages prefer the looks of women in the early 20's. IOW, men never change in their sexual attraction to women and like the same age women when they are 50 as they did when they were 20. It may or may not surprise you to learn that women of...

The thread title refers to the irony the founders like Thomas Jefferson were able to distill the ideas of the Enlightenment into the founding principles within the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, due to all the leisure time afforded them by slavery. Jefferson was incredibly...

In case you thought that the US had a monopoly on dangerously anti-science nutjobs running government, Italy just fired its entire board of health advisers, so they can replace them with anti-vaxxer dogmatists...