Tag: data science

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 29, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Metascience
Science Reporting
Tagged
, accuracy, artificial intelligence, data, data science, evidence, Evolution News, fakery, fallibility, file drawer problem, fraud, generative ai, integrity, knowledge, Leipzig, Nature (journal), objectivity, peer review, PLOS ONE, PNAS, politicization, post-trust, predatory journals, pseudoscience, public trust, replicability, scientific reliability, scientists, suppressed evidence, The Conversation, transparency}

How the “Scientific Community” Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness

_{David Coppedge
May 29, 2025

Ethics, Metascience, Science Reporting

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The “file drawer problem” leads invariably to biased reporting. It refers to scientists deciding not to report negative results. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 17, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Science Education
Tagged
, archeology, biological origins, cryptography, data integrity, data science, Design Inference, Forensics, information, intelligent design, Nature (journal), physicists, Piltdown Man, plagiarism, probabilities, probability, randomness, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, specification, Stanford University, University of Rochester, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data

_{William A. Dembski
April 17, 2024

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Science Education

15}

The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery. Read More ›

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Date
January 20, 2017

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, Biomimetics, Craig Venter, data science, DNA, information, microchips, silicon}

The World’s Ideal Storage Medium Is “Beyond Silicon”

_{Science & Culture
January 20, 2017

Computational Sciences, Technology

7}

The best storage medium needs no introduction. You're already using it. Read More ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
November 29, 2016

Categories
Political Science
Science Reporting
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, algorithms, Big Data, data integrity, data science, elections, failed predictions, hype, machine learning, Nation, Neil Postman, Politics, predictions, Silicon Valley}

In Election 2016, Why Big Data Took a Tumble

_{Brendan Dixon
November 29, 2016

Political Science, Science Reporting, Technology

4}

Human judgment and insight, especially trained human judgment and insight, are irreplaceable. 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 science, John Ioannidis, misinformation, mythology, pragmatism, replicability, sciences, scientific credibility, scientific method, scientific reliability, self-correcting, truth, truth-seeking}

Science Can Perpetuate Myths

_{Science & Culture
January 2, 2013

Intelligent Design, Metascience, Scientific Trustworthiness, Technology

10}

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 ›