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Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
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Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error. Read More ›
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Information as Matter’s “Fifth State” — A Physicist’s Contortion

Dark matter is the unknown substance thought to make up some 27 percent of the universe. It can’t be observed but only theorized. Read More ›
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“Spontaneous Creation”: Meyer on Stephen Hawking’s Category Error

He asked poignantly in A Brief History of Time, “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Read More ›
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Concept of substance addiction. The struggle and journey of individuals affected by the condition. Ai Generated.
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How a Scientific Field Can Collapse: The Case of Psychiatry

Psychiatry is in crisis. Leading journals are questioning its validity as a science. Yet some of the same criticisms could be leveled against Darwinism. Read More ›

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