Tag: John Horgan

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 18, 2025

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, chimps, Christine Webb, crows, fungi, Harvard Science Book Talk, humans, John Horgan, Johns Hopkins University, Marc Bekoff, misgendering, New Scientist, New York Times, New York University, octopuses, plants, prairie dogs, Psychology Today, songbirds, The Arrogant Ape, tools, William Egginton}

On New Book, Elite Opinion Cuts Loose from Reality

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 18, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Scientific Reasoning

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All these intellectual worthies, in deadly earnest virtue, choose to miss the point. Read More ›

Study of quantum energy physics model of molecules and nuclear energy 3d rendering

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Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic research, affiliation, cancel culture, conspiracy theorists, David Lindley, Eric Weinstein, Germany, Joe Rogan, John Horgan, Johns Hopkins University, language, paper mill, physics, Piers Morgan, pseudocience, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, string theory, Team Cancel, tone policing, Wall Street Journal}

For Criticizing Her Field, Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Gets Canceled by Her Institution

_{Science and Culture
September 17, 2025

Physics, Scientific Freedom

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Her parting words: “A lot of research [in] the foundations of physics is now pseudocience. It hasn't followed the scientific method for decades.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Medical Association, Arthur Caplan, Behind the Black, Bobby Mukkamala, Cross-Check, Eric Weinstein, expert opinion, John Horgan, Lawrence Krauss, Leif Le Mahieu, lobotomy, mastectomies, media, mental illness, New York University, News, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Robert Sapolsky, Robert Zimmerman, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, science communicators, Sean Carroll, Texas Children’s Hospital, The Daily Wire, The End of Science, transgenderism, trust}

Science Struggles with Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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There seems to be little relationship between many science writers’ current concerns and the reasons that public trust in science has been steadily declining. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 10, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Big Think, Dartmouth College, free will, John Horgan, Marcello Gleiser, Michael Egnor, militarism, Mind Matters, Minding the Brain, proofs, quantum mechanics, Racism, sexism, Superdeterminism, The Immortal Mind}

Can There Be Evidence for Free Will?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 10, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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John Horgan thinks that “proofs” of free will seem as dubious as denials but there is actually considerable neuroscience evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 7, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Antony Flew, Baruch Spinoza, Cornell University, Fred Hoyle, John Horgan, Max Born, Niels Bohr, Peter Atkins, Richard Feynman, There Is a God, Werner Heisenberg}

Our Universe Works … Yet Doesn’t Make Sense; How Could That Be?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 7, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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How can so much uncertainty lie placidly at the basis of our universe but disrupt nothing in particular? We even build better computers because of it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, Christof Koch, Commentary, Dan Falk, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinians, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, human mind, John Horgan, materialists, Nautilus, Richard Dawkins, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Dissent, William A. Dembski}

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 5, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, Christof Koch, consciousness, crabs, Francis Crick, hard problem of consciousness, John Horgan, Kristin Andrews, materialism, mind, nervous system, neuroscience, panpsychism, philosophers, physiology, theists, York University}

Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 11, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 3, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Psychological Association, brain, censorship, debunking, education, fact-checking, Geneva, John Horgan, lying, materialism, misinformation, Nature (journal), noble lie, propaganda, Richard Dawkins, scientific reliability, scientists, The Conversation, trust, trust in scientists, universe, University of Geneva}

Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 3, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Alfred Lord Tennyson, cars, Charles Sanders Peirce, consciousness, immaterial reality, John Dewey, John Horgan, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Matt Ridley, Nautilus, Philip Ball, science writers, Stanford University, The End of Science}

For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
August 14, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, alpha male, Baylor University, Bruce Gordon, cosmological constant, cosmos, Francis Crick, insanity, intelligent design, John Barrow, John Horgan, Nobel laureates, Paul Davies, Peter Atkins, physicists, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Texas, The Nature of Nature, William A. Dembski}

John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”

_{Paul Nelson
August 14, 2023

Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began." Read More ›