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Date
February 25, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, artificial intelligence, Belgium, bias, chatbot, climate change, Gary Smith, hallucination, medicine, neuroscience, privacy, psychiatry, safety, Stanford University, suicide}

Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

_{Science & Culture
February 25, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, Ann Gauger, bias, causal circularity, cells, circular reasoning, codons, common ancestor, cysteine, DNA, genetic code, helicase, histidine, mind, natural processes, nucleotides, Phys.org, PNAS, proteins, replication, RNA world, topoisomerase, transcription, translation}

Circular Reasoning in Origin of Life Research: Insights from a Recent Study on the Genetic Code

_{Brian Miller
January 27, 2025

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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This study compared sequences of proteins in modern organisms to reconstruct ancestral proteins believed to reside in the last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Read More ›

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Date
December 12, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, Durham University, goal-directedness, Goldilocks, historians, multiverse, particles, Philip Goff, thought, universe}

Why the Multiverse Theory Can’t Explain Away Cosmic Fine-Tuning

_{Science & Culture
December 12, 2024

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Many thoughtful people in science today would see the goal of science as explaining away both goal-directedness and thought. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, beliefs, bias, critics, disagreement, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, journalists, opinions, podcast, science, truth}

Science Needs a Scout Mindset; Here’s Why

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 11, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One advantage of the scout mindset is that it makes adjusting the confidence we have in our opinions more of a low-stakes enterprise. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, bias, censorship, Galileo Affair, heliocentrism, ideas, information, intelligent design, peer review, power, publications, Research, Roman Catholic, scientific community, scientists, self-censorship, trust, truth}

PNAS Paper: “Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”

_{Casey Luskin
February 20, 2024

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The intelligent design community is well aware of the problem. One section in the paper that categorizes types of persecution sounds alarmingly familiar. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, C.S. Lewis, causation, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
December 4, 2023

Categories
Epistemology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bias, Big Bang, climate change, closed-mindedness, confirmation bias, denialism, education, Eugenie Scott, evidence, evolution, global warming, human evolution, intellectual humility, intelligent design, motivated reasoning, nanotechnology, open-mindedness, polarization, popular opinion, Science Literacy, self-correcting, Stem Cell Research, TEDx talk}

Why Science Needs a Scout Mindset: Lessons from Julia Galef

_{Jonathan McLatchie
December 4, 2023

Epistemology, Scientific Reasoning

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The soldier mindset, also known as motivated reasoning, leads us to defend the stronghold of our belief commitments against intellectual threats, come what may. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bias, darkness, disinformation, encyclopedia, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, scientism, Wikipedia}

Sanger Fought Disinformation on Intelligent Design “Tooth and Nail” — But Disinformation Won

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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"I fought ... tooth and nail on the question whether Wikipedia articles should dismiss [ID] and other nonstandard scientific theories without a hearing." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, bias, censorship, editors, encyclopedia, evolution, inaccuracy, intelligent design, journalists, Larry Sanger, neutrality, Politics, scientism, Twitter, Wikipedia}

Co-Founder Again Blasts Wikipedia’s “Scientistic Point of View,” “So Biased as to Be Twisted”

_{David Klinghoffer
August 8, 2023

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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Yet a lot of people out there still think Wikipedia is meaningfully “vetted” and if you find an inaccuracy, you can “Update it then. That’s the entire point.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, Alexa, Amazon, Baylor University, bias, 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}

On ID, Myth Persists that Wikipedia Is Reliable, though Co-Founder Has Called It “Appallingly Biased”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology

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I was reminded of this by an exchange today on Twitter, or X, or however somebody “rebrands” it tomorrow. Read More ›