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China Leads the World in Retracted Science Papers

Seven of the Top Ten retraction hotspots are in China but India, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia also make an appearance. Read More ›
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Photo: Australian honeyeater, by JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/), CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Lee Spetner’s Nonrandom Evolutionary Hypothesis

We were saddened to learn of the passing of Lee Spetner, MIT-trained physicist. Dr. Spetner was 91 years old and lived in Jerusalem. Read More ›
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Photo: Alleged Vindhyan worm burrows, from Seilacher et al. 1998 fig. 2, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Vindhyan Controversy and Debunking Alleged Ediacaran and Cambrian Fossils

The fancy speculations about the evolution of multicellular life and early animals turned out to be just smoke and mirrors. Read More ›
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This Is Science? Top Medical Journal Goes After … Capitalism

Having strived to transform global warming into a planetary health emergency, it has now published a screed attacking “commercialism” for killing the planet. Read More ›
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Photo: <I>Dickinsonia</I>-like pseuodofossil, Bhimbetka cave, Retallack et al. 2021, fair use.

Fossil Friday: Alleged Precambrian Fossil Unmasked as Rotten Beehive

The scientists revisited the site and discovered that the assumed Ediacaran fossils are neither of Ediacaran age nor represent fossils at all. Read More ›
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Photo: Conodonts from the Triassic of India, Goel 1977, fair use.

Fossil Friday: The Gupta Scandal

The greatest scientific fraud of the 20th century is not so well known outside of professional paleontologist circles. Read More ›
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The Apotheosis of William Wordsworth

What many responded to in Wordsworth’s evocations of Nature’s sacrality was his restoration of a partially obscured link between Nature and the divine. Read More ›
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Photo: Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India, by Fruiticos, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

India High Court: Nature Is a “Living Being” with “Rights”

Nature-rights laws generally allow anyone who believes that nature’s “rights” are being violated to sue to prevent the violation and to seek redress. Read More ›
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Don’t Forget Scientific Fraud

“I’ve done the research. I have the facts.” Thus said two people to me on successive days over the weekend, in almost identical words. Read More ›
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Eclipse Miracle — An ID Book for Children

It is encouraging to me that someone else came to the same basic conclusion as I did following my observation of a total solar eclipse in India in 1995. Read More ›

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