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

Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›
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Jordan Peterson — Do the Stitches Hold?

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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What Jordan Peterson Might Say to Intelligent Design Proponents

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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Photo: Pocket watch, an image Wikipedia links with intelligent design because it’s meant to suggest an association with William Paley and the antiquated “watchmaker analogy”; by Hannes Grobe (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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

A philosophy PhD, Larry Sanger worked with Jimmy Wales to found Wikipedia in 2001. Read More ›
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But Why Do Biology Textbooks Retain Discredited Evolutionary Icons?

The “experts” who swoop in to assure schools that their textbooks are in no need of fixing present a psychological puzzle. Read More ›
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Photo: Ozzie, who likes hot dogs more than praise, by Gregory Berns via Emory University.

Defense Department-Funded Study Finds that Dogs Relish Praise and Hot Dogs

This is indeed cutting-edge research. Given that, did you wonder if they’d bring evolution into it? Of course they do. Read More ›
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Photo: Seismograph, by U.S. Department of the Interior via Wikipedia.

Introducing the Richards Scale – Your Tool for Evaluating Grounds for Science Skepticism

U.C. Berkeley psychology professor Tania Lombrozo is concerned about “skepticism.” Read More ›

Is Free Will Just "Your Brain Tricking Itself"?

When scientists propose a really inane explanation for a mundane observation, evolutionary psychology is likely the discipline invoked. Read More ›

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