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Grok as Hitler 2.0 Reveals Hard Limits to AI

We mustn’t attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, incompetence, corruption, or blind ambition. Read More ›
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Awesome Recovery for Atheist Lawrence Krauss

Krauss of all people is now lecturing us about the importance of…decency, goodness, honesty, honor, and purity. Read More ›
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The “Surprisingly Consistent” Answer to the Question: Are We Alone in the Universe?

The firm belief in extraterrestrial life — a belief nearly universal in the scientific community — is an act of faith. Read More ›
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Is Joe Blow “Anti-Intellectual”?

Joe wonders how a scientist could be so wrong and still keep his job. Read More ›
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Is Sex Binary?

The denial by mainstream scientists that sex is binary is of the same cloth as the denial that human life starts at conception and the denial that intelligent design is evident in living things. Read More ›
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Scientific “Decadence” and the Myth of Objectivity

Scientists aren’t like “everyone else”: because of the prestige they enjoy, the impact of their being “uncritical of things that [they] want to believe” is tremendous. It can be quite corrosive, quite malign. Read More ›
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#10 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Jeffrey Epstein and the Silence of the Scientists

It is, I believe, a revelation about our scientific culture and particularly about the trust we should place in a “science consensus” that should shake us to our bones. Read More ›
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Apocalypse Now — More Things Scientists Would Like You to Forget 

We must never confuse scientific consensus with science. Science is inquiry. Consensus is cloture of inquiry. Read More ›
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David Goldman on Gelernter’s Darwin Apostasy

Against the backdrop of materialist science’s failure, what accounts for the rise of modern determinist mythologies, led by astrology and transhumanism? Read More ›

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