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By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Women who take antidepressants during pregnancy may be more likely to have children with autism, a Canadian study suggests. The overall risk is low – less than 1 percent of the nearly 150,000 babies in the study were diagnosed with autism by age six or seven. But children of …

by Jamie Palmer By supporting fundamentalists, the Left simply chooses one camp in a political struggle without acknowledging it. Maryam Namazie, a trenchant campaigner against religious fundamentalism, made this observation last week during a fraught lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. It would turn out to be pertinent. Namazie’s appearance at Goldsmiths was causing trouble …

It’s Okay To Be Smart is bringing you a series covering the basics of evolution and natural selection, why they are the foundation of biology, and how we know that Darwin’s discovery is 100% true. From December 14-25, they’ll have a new video every day answering the most common questions about evolution and natural selection. …

by Shaunacy Ferro People are incredibly receptive to meaningless buzzwords, according to a new study in the journal Judgment and Decision Making. Yes, the vast majority of people are willing to believe complete bullshit, to use the scholarly term. (Title of the study: “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit.”) Over the course of four …

By Rachel E. Gross Few issues have divided the American public as bitterly as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Since On the Origin of Species was published in 1859, it has driven a wedge between those who accept that humans and this planet’s other inhabitants have evolved over time, and those who …

Share this video on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ditisnormaal/videos/1029292620455942/ The Islam has been under huge scrutiny lately and is often criticised for being an aggressive religion… but what about Christianity? In this video we disguised a Bible as a Quran and read some of it’s most gruesome verses to the people. This is what they had to say. …

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An Ontario father has lost custody of his children in part because he refused to stop trying to cure their autism through homeopathy. “Not only were these treatments not effective, but they had negative effects,” reads a court decision granting sole custody to the children’s mother. The father, a 48-year-old computer programmer in the Greater …

By Rachael Larimore (Slate) Today’s Google Doodle is a lovely animation celebrating the anniversary of the discovery of Lucy, a 3.18-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis fossil at the Hadar research site in the Afar region of Ethiopia. On Nov. 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and a student, Tom Gray, discovered a forearm bone on a walk back …

by Ari Shapiro and Audie Cornish As many as half of all natural history specimens sitting in our museums are mislabeled, according to a team at the University of Oxford and the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.NPR hears from Zoe Goodwin who is the lead author the study. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: By the time a …

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