Category: Science
Mathematicians and researchers to boycott Elsevier journals?
| February 11, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Peer review, Science |
Nearly 5,000 researchers have joined him. But it’s not clear how – or whether – a boycott would work. more
The new scientific paradigm? Feelings rule?
| February 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
Look, it’s Friday night here. And we are just telling you. Your toothpick has feelings too. more
Appeals to the authority of science are like appeals to the authority of the stock market.
| February 9, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Peer review, Science |
You know it’s real science if it could be wrong. more
Depew paper tries to soften the blow: “We would be the last to suggest that Darwinism can’t reform and reframe itself yet again.”
| February 7, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
“We would be the last to suggest that Darwinism can’t reform and reframe itself yet again.” The “last to suggest”? Oh come on! more
Reviewing James Shapiro’s book, Darwinist admits: Growing number of gene scientists unconvinced by Darwinism
| January 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Science |
They’re not ID supporters. They just know that there is more to evolution than the Darwin lobby tells the mainstream media. more
Darwinists actually get lambasted for something? In a journal?
| January 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, News, Science |
“The new paper not only corrects the error but criticizes the evolutionists who proposed the wrong idea, telling them basically they should have consulted the insect experts … ” more
Bill Dembski: Evolution “played no role whatever” in his conversion to Christianity #4
| January 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Science |
“Once naturalism lost its hold on me with regard to the origin of life, skepticism of Darwinism vis-à-vis the subsequent history of life followed.” more
Is Killing Scientists to Stop Their Research a Threat to Science?
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by nullasalus under Philosophy, Science, Science, worldview issues and society |
I know – the answer seems obvious. But let’s put this in context. Iranian scientists are being killed, apparently in connection to their research on nuclear power. I’ll add that their deaths can’t reasonably be chalked up to collateral damage – say, someone blowing up a facility and a scientist ends up caught in the… more
What do you consider a deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation?
| January 16, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Philosophy, Science |
Andrei Linde: “One can easily dismiss everything that I just said as a wild speculation.” more
What science doesn’t need: A universal symbol
| January 13, 2012 | Posted by News under News, Science |
“It could be used on car bumpers and web pages, and in public venues.” But that’s just the trouble. more
When science writers can’t cope with honesty among scientists …
| January 13, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Media, Science |
Investigator Szostak can’t cope with science writer Flam’s demands for certainty because they interfere with rational thinking. Flam can’t cope with the reality Szostak sees. more
Darwin foulmouth PZ Myers and New Ager Deepak Chopra get into a dustup on Twitter?
| January 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
The “conversation” was not pretty, she sez. Astounding! more
The traditional atheist/agnostic is indispensable to the intellectual world—Part II
| December 26, 2011 | Posted by News under Atheism, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
“At one time, popular beliefs sought the recognition of religion; today, they are more likely to seek the recognition of science. ” more
Why might “being made in the image of God” matter for human dignity?
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
Why might that matter for public policy?Look what happens when you take it away. more
Steve Fuller’s Christmas lecture, at Swedish Twitter University: “How to think like God”
| December 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, News, Science |
“It’s pretty difficult to rationalize science unless we imagine ourselves as over time, albeit in fits and starts, getting closer to the mind of this hypothesized God,” more
Most funding for chimp lab research to end immediately
| December 17, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
“Most research on chimpanzees was unnecessary.” more
Scientism is indistinguishable from the nonsense popular culture it spawns
| December 16, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
Scientism has failed the very nature of things; no matter that all the law courts in the world force it down students’ throats as they choose. more
NASA’s former glory vs its current rock music fetish
| December 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Science |
Today, anything and everything is true except reasons to doubt materialism, Darwinism, the multiverse .. As long as you pay … . more
An MIT nuclear scientist writes against scientism
| December 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, News, Science |
You can also read quite a bit of the book online for free at the author’s website. more
What goes wrong when freakonomics invades science …
| December 14, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, News, Science |
“What seem like natural calculations are stymied by the impracticality, in real life, of changing one variable while leaving all other variables constant.” more
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