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Skeptic Magazine 27.1 (2022): A special section on transgender matters—an overview of the debate, research, and policies); supporting kids who identify as transgender or who are experiencing gender dysphoria (marked distress at an incongruence between gender identity and biological sex); Trans Athletes and Conflicting Rights; Why Christians Should Accept the Theory of Evolution; 5G Rollout Reawakens Wireless Fear; Two Tributes to Edward O. Wilson; Eyewitness Testimony: Engaging with People...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on withholding the truth when it may hurt you professionally.

But the liberty at stake is moral and spiritual, not just intellectual.

An old man i would gather a style i could use and make an ultimate movie that was my style. every movie i learned how to make it. >> you always ask yourself how can i do it differently? >> no, i always asked myself how can i serve the theme? whats called the core. if the core in "apocalypse now" was morality and i knew it was morality out of shape because that was not a moral war. >> i love the smell of napalm in the morning. >> there was a line i read, "we teach the boys to drop fire on people ...

Immoral." i think that said it all. morality is what this movie is but im going to put 10,000 volts in it. >> and that ends up being the second last line of the movie. >> yeah. >> we train young men to drop fire on people but their commanders wont allow them to write [ bleep ] on their airplanes because its obscene.

>> peter finch is speaking as every man. and its a reaction to an america that is questioning their own personal morality. >> roger, do you believe that america is the land of opportunity? >> yeah. >> "rocky" gives us faith. its a david and goliath story but a quintessential american story. its how we want to believe the country functions. >> youve got heart but you fight like a goddamn ape. >> why do you want to fight? >> because i cant sing and dance. >> its about this goofy guy getting an une...

It was a potential disaster and martin sheen had had a heart attack and there was a lot of drama around what we were going to see on-screen. >> that was "apocalypse now" and then the movie just blew my [ bleep ] mind. >> the lights are down. you hear -- and then finally the screen comes up. it was like, wow. ♪ this is the end ♪ ♪ beautiful friend ♪ >> its a stranger kind of film that more and more apocalypse becomes like a dream or a nightmare in which youre dealing with themes of morali...

Thirty five year old professor, you get the last thirty five seconds. yeah. lets remember everybody out there predicteds r that rhinehat would just affirm the justice department and not disclose . ything i predicted that he would do exactly this, that he would redact part. so im going to give them a presumption of credibility and expect that he will actually accurately transcribe trump in social media and in questions of morality. professor, it doesnt get any more personal than that. i agree, bu...

Though some people criticize the 'purity culture' it can be both empowering and uplifting.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to break the silence with genetic kinfolk or keep quiet.