Denyse O'Leary

Book with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, THE IMMORTAL MIND: A neurosurgeon's case for the existence of the soul (2025) now published. At work on a book on NDEs.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

How much does the mind weigh? How long is it?

A recent article at Popular Mechanics provided a chance to reflect on mind vs. matter — and materialism

https://t.co/1zx1L8YqFA

People are entitled to their own definitions of materialism, of course. But once we focus on a standard one, we see that it is false to the reality of the human mind.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Watch how an owl can rotate its head up to 270° without harming blood vessels or cutting off circulation.

[Oceaiii🐋🐬 @oceaiii]

A gentle giant cruising right by the shoreline. 🌊 It’s hard to comprehend the pure scale of a blue whale until you see it juxtaposed against the rocks like this. Nature at its most majestic.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

If you could afford the train back them, them was the days:

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Train carriage interior from 1900s.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

This outrage alone should end any pretence that the Woke have any business helping us make social policy: @Arrinba3870

[The New Westminster Times @NewWestTimes]

Male sex predators in women's jails?

Former prisoner tells the shocking truth about why male sex offenders want to "transition" their way into women's jails.

"Women's prisons are like camps for men. They're minimum security," explains former prisoner Heather Mason. "There are no cameras in the homes. The guards do a walk through once every two hours ...so they have access to these women."

New Westminster Times journalist Amy Hamm @preta_6 speaks with @cawsbar co-founder Mason @Mason134211f about a major court victory re women's constitutional rights to safety. The litigation was led by lawyers with the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada.
https://t.co/ZMAhwK4i92

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

Talking about real issues is always a way for churches to connect with people and stay relevant:

[LifeNews.com @LifeNewsHQ]

Churches are speaking out more against abortion!

The Pew Research Center released the result of a survey on the political messages that churchgoers hear from clergy. Pew surveyed more than 3,500 people in April 2026.

They asked about a range of different political issues that might be addressed in church, including social issues, the environment, and foreign policy. Pew also broke down the results by denomination.

The results should interest pro-lifers.

Of all the denominations, Catholics were the most likely to report hearing a clergy member discuss abortion. Specifically, among Catholics who attend Mass at least monthly, 49 percent reported hearing a clergy member discuss abortion within the past few months.

Similarly, 43 percent of white evangelical Protestants who report monthly church attendance said they heard a clergy member discuss abortion within the past few months.

The results of the survey indicate that white non-evangelical Protestants and black Protestants were less likely to hear clergy members discuss abortion when attending a church service.

Only 18 percent of white non-evangelical Protestants and 20 percent of black Protestants reported hearing a clergy member discuss abortion during the past few months.

What was interesting about the results of this survey is that a vast majority of the messages that churchgoers received about abortion supported the pro-life position. Of Catholics who reported hearing about abortion at Mass, over 86 percent said it was an exclusively pro-life message. Similarly, over 90 percent of Evangelical Protestants who heard a clergy member address abortion reported that the message was exclusively against abortion.

This is unsurprising because the Catholic Church and nearly all Evangelical churches oppose abortion.

What was surprising is that a majority of the messages that other denominations heard about abortion were also pro-life.

The results indicate over 78 percent of white non-evangelicals and 53 percent of black Protestants who heard about abortion in church said the messages were exclusively pro-life. This is somewhat surprising, since many of the respondents in these categories likely belong to Christian denominations that do not explicitly oppose abortion.

Some pro-life activists have expressed frustration for the unwillingness of clergy to discuss abortion. However, the results of this survey indicate a substantial number of churchgoers report that their clergy discuss abortion. Furthermore, a vast majority of these messages support the pro-life position. Surveys indicate that younger Catholic priests tend to be more conservative. This trend might be true of clergy from other denominations.

Overall, pro-lifers of all religious denominations should welcome the results of this Pew poll, which show that many clergy take a public stance against abortion.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

The question many of us should be asking is whether the 60 Minutes format is obsolete in the age of the internet:

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

After being fired from CBS, former “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley yesterday said that “new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified.”

Those are remarkable claims for which Pelley presented no evidence. Indeed, it would be extraordinary for CBS to demand such things of a correspondent, either verbally or in writing, given the reputational risk to the network.

A more likely explanation is that Pelley disagreed with someone at CBS and then declared a difference of opinion to be a demand to lie. Support for this interpretation comes from the fact that he claimed Tuesday that CBS’s new management, led by Bari Weiss, was trying to kill “60 Minutes,” something for which he also did not provide evidence.

Moreover, the accusation makes no sense. CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss took the job to rebuild CBS News, not to wreck it, and a ruined “60 Minutes” would hurt her. Paramount’s owners did not pay billions for the network to burn its best asset for spite. So the simpler reading is that Pelley is the one stretching the truth.

Doing so appears to be a habit for Pelley. He told The New York Times, “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq,” but being in a combat zone as a journalist is not the same as being “in combat.” The remark is yet more evidence of Pelley’s propensity to exaggerate to the point of lying.

For decades, mainstream liberal journalists have displayed remarkable levels of arrogance, even as they get major stories wrong.

Consider the case of CBS News’ former anchor Dan Rather. In the fall of 2004, two months before the election, Rather presented documents purporting to show favoritism in George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Experts called them forgeries. CBS apologized: “We made a mistake in judgment, and for that I am sorry,” Rather said. On air, he added, “I want to say, personally and directly, I’m sorry.”

But then, a decade later, Rather told Variety he still stands “100 percent” behind the report and reframed the apology.

Or consider NBC’s Katie Couric. In her 2016 documentary “Under the Gun,” editors inserted roughly eight to nine seconds of silence after she asked Virginia gun owners how to keep guns from felons and terrorists without background checks, making them look stumped. The raw audio revealed that they answered immediately.

Couric’s first instinct was to defend what she did, saying she was “very proud of the film.” Only after sustained backlash did she apologize.

In her 2021 memoir “Going There,” Couric admitted she cut Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s harshest anthem-kneeling comments from her 2016 interview. Ginsburg had said kneeling players showed “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life, which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from.”

NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in the spring of 2020, aired a clip of Attorney General Bill Barr that omitted part of his answer, misleading the public.

When Catherine Herridge interviewed Barr for CBS Evening News, she asked what history would say about his decision to drop the case against a former National Security Advisor to President Trump, Michael Flynn. The Obama administration’s FBI had illegally targeted Flynn for entrapment and prosecution. Barr replied that ”history is written by the winner. So it largely depends on who’s writing the history.”

"Meet the Press'" anchor at the time, Chuck Todd, said on air that Barr “didn’t make the case that he was upholding the rule of law. He was almost admitting that, yeah, this is a political job.’” But “Meet the Press” had left out the second part of Barr’s answer to Herridge, in which he said, “But I think a fair history would say that it was a good decision because it upheld the rule of law.”

The safeguards the journalism profession built against error did not work when it mattered. The corrections, the editors, the fact-checkers, and the standards desks all sat in place while the press got the border, trans medicine, climate, the sixth extinction, Russiagate, the Hunter Biden laptop, Covid and much else wrong. Gerth described how reporters sought to “shoot the messenger” rather than grapple with evidence contradicting the Russia collusion narrative...

https://t.co/K5tE372xGo

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[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

People with Down Syndrome are underrated:

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Meet Jad Issa, a man born with Down syndrome who, against all odds, raised his son Sader Issa in Syria with love and determination.

While many doubted what was possible, Jad worked hard in a local wheat mill and saved money to support his son’s education.

Sader, inspired by his father’s unwavering faith and support, went on to study dentistry becoming a doctor and proving that love, dedication, and support make all the difference.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Rescuers save a baby elephant and mom trapped in mud.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

@geraldposner The trans cult takes dead aim at children. Protecting children is natural to most adults. Why is anyone surprised that anyone associated with that would feel the heat? People who want to live in peace, gay or otherwise, cannot dump it soon enough.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

@FoodProfessor If sugar was as expensive as fentanyl, people would still buy it unless their priorities change. Government should promote health but not punish people by food taxes. Make unhealthy choices unpopular!

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

@genspect Considering how many professionals are implicated in the destruction of children's health, perhaps they had to throw them a bone. That means throwing them some kids, I guess. But that's how deeply corrupt it all is.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

The UN we are all told to look up to was fronting child sex abuse:

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

You cannot hate the UN enough.

This interview with UN whistleblower Emma Reilly needs to be seen.

She worked inside the UN’s Human Rights Office and exposed how the organization has repeatedly covered up systematic child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation by UN peacekeepers and staff around the world, especially in places like the Central African Republic, Haiti, and DR Congo.

Instead of protecting the victims (many of them children), senior officials protected the perpetrators and retaliated against those who tried to speak out.

This isn’t ancient history. It’s ongoing. And yet the story barely made headlines before it was buried again.

The UN loves to lecture the world about human rights while shielding its own people from accountability for some of the worst crimes imaginable. How many more whistleblowers have to be destroyed before people admit the entire system is rotten?

Big thanks to Ali Tabrizi @IAMALITABRIZI for actually asking the questions the mainstream media won’t touch.

The UN doesn’t need more money or more power. It needs to be dismantled and replaced.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

Canada was NOT, it turns out, the only country where the trans kid cult had gained a foothold in the highest offices in the land:

[Meg Brock @MegEBrock]

A 78-page plan reviewed by The Daily Wire shows how the Biden administration was planning to make affirming transgenderism the national standard within child welfare services without having to pass a single law.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

@FSU_Canada But make no mistake: The war on evidence-based reasoning will continue as long as the Woke remain in power

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

Good news: The criminalization of saying that no bodies were found at the Kamloops Rez School has been (for now) voted down. But make no mistake: The war on evidence-based reasoning will continue as long as the Woke remain in power:

[Free Speech Union of Canada @FSU_Canada]

While we would have preferred to see Bill C-9 rejected in its entirety by the Senate, at least it was not made more draconian through the addition of a crime of "denialism". Small mercies.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

@nationalpost It feels weird hearing Canadian media engaged in fact-based reasoning when the government is voting to criminalize "denialism" (stating correctly that there is no evidence for some genocide claims). It's almsot as if they want to be media again.

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

It feels weird hearing Canadian media engaged in fact-based reasoning when the government is voting to criminalize "denialism" (stating correctly that there is no evidence for some genocide claims). It's almsot as if they want to be media again.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Kamloops residential school 'graves' could have been septic pipes all along.

Five years after the explosive announcement of 215 children's graves, the only way to know what's under the ground is to excavate, writes Tristin Hopper https://t.co/4HOOaj9c7D

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

“Junk RNA” Takes a Big Hit
A new scientific paper in Genome Biology and Evolution provides strong evidence that in a large proportion of cases, DNA transcription is not random “noise” and the RNA produced is not “junk.”
https://t.co/MRNPy9aCb4

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

Meyer and Halper Debate the God Hypothesis
In what Jonathan Witt called “a thoroughly absorbing and delightful debate,” Stephen Meyer and Phil Halper went head-to-head over the evidence of God in cosmology on Uncommon Ground with Justin Brierley.
https://t.co/ZShM2R6d7o

[Denyse O'Leary @itsdesign]

But the govt is NOT done with them! The law against rez school denialism is part of a full-on war on reality-based thinking. It incudes "born in the wrong body" and the war on math. The goal is to separate govt from the need to deal in fact.
https://t.co/JJ1iVwB0rX
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