David Rowland

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Einstein was Wrong about Gravity

In 1915, Albert Einstein developed his theory of general relativity, the geometric theory of gravitation that is the current description of gravity in modern physics. Einstein proposed that gravity is the result of a geometric distortion of 4-dimensional spacetime by massive objects. The more mass…
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A ‘Big Bang’ Never Happened

The prevailing scientific belief is that the universe was created by a ‘big bang’ explosion. This is an impossibility. Big bang theory imagines that somehow the universe spontaneously created itself from nothing. This whimsical idea defies both physics and logic. Nothing cannot be the cause…
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Cholesterol is Irrelevant to Heart Disease

Heart disease was an uncommon cause of death at the beginning of the 20th century, a time when meat and butter were mainstays of the American diet. Beef, bacon, sausages, and pork were consumed in relatively large quantities. Thus, there is no causal link between…
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Doctors Don’t Understand Thyroid Function

Low thyroid function (hypothyroidism) is both rampant and underdiagnosed. The reason it goes undetected is because laboratory tests measure only the presence of thyroid hormone in the blood but cannot tell us how much active hormone reaches the bodily cells that require it for their…
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Epidemic of False Diagnoses of Autism

In 2018, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported that 1 in 44 children were diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, for a prevalence rate of 2.27% of the population. In 2012, a review of global prevalence of autism found 62 cases per 1,000 people,…
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Fetuses Have No Rights

There are no rights to any piece of tissue growing within a woman, even if in time it has the potential to become a human being. A potentiality is not an actuality; and a fertilized ovum, embryo, or fetus is not a human being. That…
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The Government Fallacy

Government is the great fiction through which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. Government has no money of its own. It can only give to some what it takes from others. It can spend only what it ultimately collects from taxpayers.…
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Trump’s Tariffs are a Tax on Americans

“Tariffs are a tax on the economy.” – Alan Greenspan Tariffs are taxes intended to make foreign goods more expensive. Overlooked are how the secondary consequences of tariffs have deleterious effects that filter through the entire domestic economy. Tariffs are a tax on consumption. Tariffs…
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Vitamin C: Genetic Nutrient Deficiency

We humans suffer from hypoascorbemia, a genetic defect that restricts us from producing ascorbic acid (vitamin C) internally the way almost all other mammals do. Hypoascorbemia is a genetic disease caused by a defect in the gene that controls synthesis of the enzyme, L-gulonolactone oxidase,…
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Immigration Benefits the Economy

“Immigration restrictions make us poorer.” – Adam Smith Institute Most immigrants to the U.S. are highly educated in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. This influx of scientists and engineers enables domestic businesses to innovate, expand production, and build new facilities. Also, it is estimated that…
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The Christmas Hoax

Aramaic is the ancient language in which many parts of the Bible were written. In the original Aramaic text, Mary is referred to as “a young woman of marriageable” age. This phrase was later mistranslated as “virgin”. There was no virgin birth. Mary and Joseph…
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There is No Such Thing as Photons

Photon: a falsely presumed particle that is supposedly a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves. Photons are alleged to be massless. Particle: a small, localized object that can be described by physical properties, such as volume, density,…
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