Roberto Rivera

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  Jul 16, 2020

  Will population control heal the planet?

  According to news reports, there’s at least one bright spot amidst all the COVID-19. With those pesky and invasive humans stuck at home, animals are reclaiming wild spaces (and even city streets).

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  Jul 11, 2020

  Why neuroscience can’t tell us about the soul

  Naturalists are committed to believing, before any evidence takes them there, that the soul and the self are illusions with biological explanations.

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  Jul 9, 2020

  Supreme Court affirms religious institutions are allowed to be religious

  In two significant decisions, the Court protected our First Amendment’s First Freedom.

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  Jul 7, 2020

  Genetic link to marijuana use causing psychosis, suicide

  In Colorado, cannabis-related emergency and urgent-care visits among “teenagers and young adults” increased nearly three-fold after legalization.

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  Jul 5, 2020

  Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman and the importance of fathers

  In one area, Michael Jordan was just like the rest of us. The greatest athlete of the 20th century longed for his dad’s acceptance and love just like everyone else.

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  Jul 2, 2020

  Supreme Court: States cannot discriminate against religious schools

  The past two weeks of Supreme Court rulings have not been encouraging. Finally, good news.

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  Jun 30, 2020

  Justice Roberts cites precedent to uphold evils of abortion

  After yesterday's 5-4 decision, it’s now difficult to see a Roberts-led Supreme Court ever overturning Roe v. Wade.

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  Jun 27, 2020

  Aftermath of Bostock: A cultural seismic shift

  If the Obergefell earthquake was the legal and cultural equivalent of a magnitude 7, the Bostock v. Clayton County decision may be a magnitude 9.

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  Jun 26, 2020

  More evidence of the dangers of CRISPR: Stop playing God with human genes

  A team of researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London used CRISPR to edit 18 donated human embryos.

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  Jun 20, 2020

  Should we defund the police?

  Abolishing police is the stuff of utopian fantasies, only possible in worlds without evildoers. To think otherwise is to misunderstand the human condition.