NIH-lobby Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date March 30, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineScientific Freedom Tagged , censorship, COVID-19, DOGE, Donald Trump, Francis Collins, hysteria, ideology, innovation, Jay Bhattacharya, National Institutes of Health, PhD students, reform, research funding, scientific debate, scientists, Trump Administration Hysteria in the Science Sector Over DOGE Wesley J. Smith March 30, 2025 Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom 4 Whatever problems now exist for the public medical research funding sector, the disappointing Francis Collins helped create them. Read More ›
galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 7, 2022 CategoriesCosmologyPhysical SciencesPhysicsScience Tagged , astrophysicists, Big Bang, COVID-19, denial, denialism, disinformation, Eric Lerner, Frank Turek, hysteria, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, pseudoscience, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Vaccines Stephen Meyer: No, the Big Bang Hasn’t Been “Disproven” David Klinghoffer September 7, 2022 Cosmology, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science 3 Today, the mark of genuine disinformation is, often, the repeated, robotic use of the word "disinformation." Read More ›
bored in science class Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date August 5, 2018 CategoriesBiologyScience Education Tagged , __k-review, academic freedom, Arizona, creationism, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, Granville Sewell, gravity, high school, hysteria, lawmakers, legislation, Louisiana Science Education Act, Neo-Darwinism, Sarah Chaffee, teachers, Tennessee, textbook, The American Spectator Chaffee, Sewell: “Evolution — More Certain Than Gravity?” David Klinghoffer August 5, 2018 Biology, Science Education 3 “Imagine two science teachers. Mr. Smith expects students simply to memorize and correctly regurgitate.” Read More ›
The Human Advantage Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 19, 2018 CategoriesHuman ExceptionalismNeuroscience & MindTechnology Tagged , __k-review, american enterprise institute, Arthur C. Brooks, artificial intelligence, economics, employment, Facebook, hysteria, Jay Richards, media, Museum of Flight, population, Seattle, smart machines, steam engine, The Human Advantage, Twitter, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, work What to Fear? Jay Richards’s The Human Advantage Is Out! David Klinghoffer June 19, 2018 Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology 4 The scary thing about AI and related advances in technology is not what it will to do us — like put us all out of work — but what we’ll do with it to ourselves and each other. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 12, 2016 CategoriesScientific FreedomSociology Tagged , __tedited, academic institutions, bullying, college campuses, creator, Eric Metaxas, hysteria, media, objectivity, peer review, peer-reviewed journals, PLOS ONE, Racism, scientism, sex, social psychology, speech codes, viewpoint diversity An Unnoticed Parallel in Academic Speech Codes David Klinghoffer April 12, 2016 Scientific Freedom, Sociology 4 In a BreakPoint commentary kindly citing Stephen Meyer and myself, Eric Metaxas reflects on the recent #Creatorgate story. Read More ›