Category: Social Sciences | Page 23 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
March 10, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Life Sciences
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, Auschwitz, Australopithecus, cells, chimpanzees, David Barash, DNA, Frankenstein, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, humans, hybridization, Mary Shelley, National Institutes of Health, Nautilus, Nazi, primates, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, The Guardian, University of Washington, Wesley Smith}

David Barash’s Proposal — Something Wicked This Way Comes

_{Ann Gauger
March 10, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Life Sciences, Psychology

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With a proposal for human/chimp hybrids, evolutionist David Barash vents his rage against religion. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 9, 2018

Categories
Anatomy
Bioethics
Evolution
Genetics
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Psychology
Tagged
, __edited, chimpanzees, CRISPR, cruelty, Darwinists, David Barash, embryology, humans, humanzee, morality, paleontology, physiology, religion, Richard Dawkins, University of Washington}

Darwinist David Barash Wants Us to Create “Humanzees”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 9, 2018

Anatomy, Bioethics, Evolution, Genetics, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Psychology

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Readers may recall that Barash, of the University of Washington, is the hubristic materialist who intentionally tries to destroy the religious faith of his students. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 26, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, anthropology, Arthur Schopenhauer, assumptions, biases, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, human origins, ideology, Nobel Prize, prejudices, pseudoscience, Racism, religion, scientific racism, scientists, Steven Pinker, The Descent of Man}

On the History of Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and Hitler, Is Steven Pinker Objective?

_{Richard Weikart
February 26, 2018

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Psychology

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Pinker is right that we should formulate our ideas based on evidence, not bias and preconceptions. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 24, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics}

Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

_{Richard Weikart
February 24, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 15, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Faith & Science
Psychology
Scientific Freedom
Social Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Bible, Christopher Hitchens, David Klinghoffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Globe and Mail, H.L. Mencken, Jane Goodall, Jordan Peterson, post-modernism, Richard Rorty, Scopes Monkey Trial, Third Reich, Twitter, University of Toronto}

Jordan Peterson — Do the Stitches Hold?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 15, 2018

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Faith & Science, Psychology, Scientific Freedom, Social Sciences

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The modern heretic and YouTube sensation seeks to meld clinical and evolutionary psychology with Jung, Nietzsche, and the Bible. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 13, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, Ben Stein, Censor of the Year, Discovery Institute, Expelled (movie), free speech, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jo-Jo Eumerus, PJ Media, Stephen Meyer, Switzerland, Tyler O’Neil, vandalism, Wikipedia}

Wikipedia Shreds the Truth

_{David Klinghoffer
February 13, 2018

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom, Sociology

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The less anyone cares, the more you can trust this ubiquitous information source. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 30, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, Carl Jung, debate, evolution, Harvard University, intelligent design, interview, Jordan Peterson, lobsters, orthodoxy, serotonin, theistic evolution, Wall Street Journal}

What Jordan Peterson Might Say to Intelligent Design Proponents

_{David Klinghoffer
January 30, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Psychology

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Peterson’s signature issues aren’t really on the radar screen here, and behind much of his perspective on psychology is a standard evolutionary viewpoint. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 18, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, asymmetry, Darwinism, disability, Human Zoos, John West, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Richard Weikart, science fiction}

Facial Symmetry, and Soulless Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
January 18, 2018

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Rude remarks and hurt feelings at a holiday party may seem a trivial matter. Yet this vignette is very telling. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 29, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexa, Amazon, Baylor University, bias, editing, encyclopedia, Google, Günter Bechly, ideology, inaccuracy, intelligent design, Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger, mental illness, neutrality, pseudonym, pseudoscience, science, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, trolls, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia}

#4 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Wiki Co-Founder Blasts “Appallingly Biased” Wikipedia Entry on ID

_{David Klinghoffer
December 29, 2017

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology

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A philosophy PhD, Larry Sanger worked with Jimmy Wales to found Wikipedia in 2001. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 12, 2017

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science Reporting
Sociology
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexa, Amazon, Baylor University, bias, cancel culture, editing, encyclopedia, Google, Günter Bechly, ideology, inaccuracy, intelligent design, Jimmy Wales, Jo-Jo Eumerus, Larry Sanger, mental illness, neutrality, pseudonym, pseudoscience, science, State Museum of Natural History, Stuttgart, trolls, Walter Bradley, Wikipedia}

Wikipedia Co-Founder Blasts “Appallingly Biased” Wikipedia Entry on Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
December 12, 2017

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science Reporting, Sociology

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"It simply cannot be defended as neutral," says Larry Sanger, who launched the online encyclopedia with Jimmy Wales in 2001. Read More ›