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Should you never make promises you don’t intend to keep? What philosophers say about the ethics of breaking your word

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In logic, validity is prime. If you want to make valid arguments, or sniff out invalid ones, here’s what you need to do

- by Robert Trueman

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Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them?

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For all the noise they make about it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that free speech was something that the far-right championed unconditionally. But last week, that illusion fell apart, demonstrating that the movement’s definition of free speech comes with terms and conditions. Following his comments about the assassination of the right-wing political activist Charlie […]

Anti-racist protests that outnumber the racist March for Australia rallies can demoralise them and make the racists less confident to come back.

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So I’ve been waiting for this meeting for twenty years, actually. And it’s not that everything’s a hundred percent understood or known, but I think we’ve made a lot of strides. I wish it was done a long time ago.

Today, we’re delighted to be joined by America’s top medical and public health professionals as we announce historic steps to confront the crisis of autism. Horrible, horrible crisis.

I want to thank the man who brought this issue to the forefront of American politics, along with me. And we actually met in my office, is it like twenty years ago, Bobby? It’s probably twenty years ago in New York. I was a developer, as you probably heard, and I always had very strong feelings about autism and how it happened and where it came from. And he and I—I don’t know, the word got out. And I wouldn’t say that people were very understanding of where we were, but it’s turning out that we understood a lot more than a lot of people who studied it, we think. And I say we think because I don’t think they were really letting the public know what they knew.

“CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox instead of a single vaccine… Experts react with concern that increasing the number of vaccinations required will threaten children’s health.” — The Guardian

At long last, our government is taking a strong anti-coddling stance on vaccines, and I couldn’t be more thrilled. Younger generations of namby-pamby participation-trophy screen addicts need the kind of toughening experience I faced in the good old days of my youth.

To be clear, when I say “the good old days,” I mean “the Nixon era.” When I say “my youth,” I mean “when I weighed less than a golf ball and had a tail.” And when I say “toughening experience,” I mean “first-trimester prenatal rubella.”

It’s important in politics to see the small details as well as the big picture. And so it was that in the fateful few hours that passed between the prime minister’s announcement of his government’s ‘second phase’ and the outbreak of problems with Angela Rayner, someone in the know briefed the government’s favourite papers (the […]

After leaving my phone behind for a week and coming back to it, I saw my social media use in a stark new light

- by Tamur Qutab

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As a crime reporter, I wrote about people behind bars. I learned much more when I began writing to them

- by Amelia Arvesen

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