Tag: confirmation bias

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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, epistemic virtues, Eugenie Scott, evidence, evolution, global warming, human evolution, intellectual humility, intelligent design, Julia Galef, motivated reasoning, nanotechnology, open-mindedness, polarization, popular opinion, Science Literacy, self-correcting, self-deception, 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animal behavior, Carl Sagan, chimpanzees, confirmation bias, crows, Dogs, emotions, gibberish, humans, marine biologists, puppies, Scientific American, Stephanie Pappas, TikTok, Washington State, wolves}

By Using Floor Buttons, Can Dogs Talk?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2023

Life Sciences, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The latest fad in the “Talk to the animals” arena appears to be a classic in confirmation bias. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, bacterial cells, chloroquine, confirmation bias, crickets, Dave Farina, debates, evolution, flagellum, FleQ, Google, Günter Bechly, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, malaria, Michael Behe, NtrC, Professor Dave Explains, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, science educators, The Edge of Evolution, Twitter, YouTube videos, YouTubers}

My “Debate” with Professor Dave

_{Jonathan McLatchie
July 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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On Twitter, Dr. McLatchie took some time to engage in an exchange with Farina, which reflects the quality of the latter’s thinking, such as it is. Read More ›

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Date
September 14, 2021

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, confirmation bias, cosmic origins, ID the Future, intelligent design, methodological materialism, Michael Shermer, oscillating universe, panspermia, podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer}

Stephen Meyer Explains “Exotic Naturalism”

_{Science and Culture
September 14, 2021

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Atheists are multiplying exotic and unobserved entities to hold at bay a much simpler and more reasonable explanation for the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 16, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, confirmation bias, COVID-19, elderly people, experts, fear, incompetence, lockdown, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, New York State, nursing homes, officials, pandemic, panic, public health, scientists, skepticism, toilet paper}

Amid Covid, the Deadly Cost of Rule by Experts

_{David Klinghoffer
November 16, 2020

Bioethics, Medicine

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Of course it’s the very same assumption at work in the evolution debate, on the part of those who dismiss the suppression of intelligent design dissidents. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Origin of Life
Tagged
, atheism, censorship, confirmation bias, coronavirus, COVID-19, Donald Trump, evolution, Evolution News, human evolution, human origins, hydroxychloroquine, Latin America, LinkedIn, macroevolution, malaria, materialism, medicine, Michael Behe, microevolution, scientific culture, The Guardian, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, World Health Organization}

Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2020

Medicine, Origin of Life

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It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2020

Categories
Geology
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, confirmation bias, coronavirus, dying, evolution, fossil record, Hard Problem, human origins, information, materialism, memory, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, naturalism, near-death experiences, neuroscience, pandemic, public health, Roger Scruton, soul}

Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2020

Geology, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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“How many other scientific disciplines have utterly failed to explain the salient phenomenon of the system they study?” I can think of one. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Political Science
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __tedited, ad hominem, confirmation bias, correlation, ideology, objectivity, subjectivity, trust in scientists}

With Stunning Admission of Error, Scientific Name-Calling Suffers a Setback

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2016

Bioethics, Political Science, Science Reporting

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The discourse of name-calling is a scourge of public life today, and it's only getting worse. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2013

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Scientific Trustworthiness
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, Big Data, confirmation bias, credibility, data integrity, data preservation, data science, John Ioannidis, Library of Alexandria, misinformation, mythology, pragmatism, replicability, replication crisis, reproducibility crisis, sciences, scientific credibility, scientific method, scientific reliability, self-correcting, truth, truth-seeking}

Science Can Perpetuate Myths

_{Science and Culture
January 2, 2013

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Scientific Trustworthiness, Technology

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For those who believe science is a self-correcting process leading inexorably to progress in true knowledge about the world, a professor of medical statistics has a heavy dose of realism. Read More ›