What is the prevailing religious guidance on Vaccinations?
Some pastors have taken a hard anti-vaccine stance. Pew has a new survey that reveals the big picture view of vaccinations by the religious.
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Why do some demand that the vaccinated should quarantine to protect unvaccinated?
The news from Miami is that a Christian Private school has put in place a policy that mandates that any student that has been vaccinated must quarantine and stay at home for 30 days. The belief behind this stance is the claim that the vaccinated will shed and release something that will impact the health … Read more
Coping with Death Threats and Violence
Scientists who articulate evidence-based facts in response to media requests for comment are finding themselves facing harassment and threats
Does Gay Conversion Therapy actually work?
Back in the days when I attended a pentecostal group as a teen, there was a guy who was deemed to have a bit of a problem, he was attracted to other guys. The church leaders kept it all lowkey and “assisted” by engaging the services of a gay conversion specialist. The net effect is … Read more
Official Tennessee COVID response: No Masks, just Prayer and Fasting
The title above sounds like satire. Sadly it is ever so real. The Republican Governor of Tennessee, Bill Lee, has announced this … That whooshing sound was the concept of a wall of separation between church and state flying off over the horizon. If he is going to do this there there are a couple … Read more
The Scientific Answer: Is Smacking Children good or bad?
“Spare the rod & spoil the child” is a popular phrase to justify spanking. If we instead turn to scientific studies, then what will we find?