ID ); $exclude_types = array( '' ); $exclude_types = apply_filters( 'eat_exclude_types', $exclude_types ); // do nothing if the post has already a featured image set if ( $already_has_thumb ) { return; } // do the job if the post is not from an excluded type if ( ! in_array( $post_type, $exclude_types ) ) { // get first attached image $img = rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ); $attachment_id = attachment_url_to_postid( $img ); if ( $attachment_id ) { // add attachment ID add_post_meta( $post->ID, '_thumbnail_id', $attachment_id, true ); } } } // set featured image before post is displayed (for old posts) add_action( 'the_post', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); // hooks added to set the thumbnail when publishing too add_action( 'new_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'pending_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'future_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); function rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ) { // Find the images in the post_content. $output = preg_match_all( '//i', $post->post_content, $matches ); $first_img = isset( $matches[1][0] ) ? $matches[1][0]:''; // if no images found, do nothing if ( empty ( $first_img ) ) { return false; } return $first_img; } } The Strange Construct of Gender Ideology Takes Another Hit – BCI 24 News Network
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The Strange Construct of Gender Ideology Takes Another Hit

28 February 2025 6:20 PM
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Unicorns don’t exist.
More accurately, there’s no evidence that they exist, which isn’t quite the same thing. As astronomer Carl Sagan famously articulated, “Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.”
Yet Sagan has also popularized the idea that “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,” which is also true, and a reprise of a similar axiom articulated in the early 19th century by French mathematician and scientist Pierre-Simon Laplace: “The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.”
That “extraordinary claims” principle, as Italian cognitive psychologist and researcher Patrizio Tressoldi has put it, “is at the heart of the scientific method, and a model for critical thinking, rational thought and skepticism everywhere.”…