Lucian Gideon Conway III

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  Feb 3, 2024

  Ex-environmentalist: 5 reasons why I gave up on 'green' policies

  The green movement has increasingly ignored common people’s real experiences in favor of an ever-narrowing and cult-like political agenda. If it ever regains a focus on the reality most of us inhabit, I’ll re-consider.

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  Apr 1, 2023

  The agreement paradox: Reducing political polarization through disagreement

  Fortunately, this paradoxical psychological analysis implies a very straightforward solution to our problem: Let’s stop caring so much that we all disagree.

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  Feb 8, 2023

  Deconstructing 'my body, my choice' hypocrisy on both sides

  Nowhere is the need for impartiality more evident than when we consider the twin issues of abortion and vaccine mandates.

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  Jan 7, 2023

  Integrating politics and science — by first separating them

  There is a danger in political laziness. If we become used to the conflation of the actual job of public health officials (determining the level of threat) and the thing they should never do (determining the point at which freedom gives way to threat), the next time a disease comes around, we may never fully recover our senses. 

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  Sep 8, 2022

  Troubling new research on political bias and bigotry

  We should all care deeply about this alarming trend. When conservatives show biases against racial and minority groups, it does not matter why they do it. It is rightly called out for the bigotry and bias that it is. But we must apply an equal standard. When liberals show similar biases, we must — and with equal vigor — call out their bigotry and bias.