“Safety” and “harm” have become the new buzzwords to use when somebody does something you don’t like. - Jerry Coyne

Science’s results alone justify its usefulness, for it is, hands down, the single best way we’ve devised to understand the universe.

Theologians intensely dislike the definition of faith as belief without—or in the face of—evidence, for that practice sounds irrational. But it surely is, as is any system that requires supporting a priori beliefs without good evidence. In religion, but not science, that kind of faith is seen as a virtue.

This will not abate: wokeness is a one-way ratchet to pure authoritarianism.