March for Science Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 13, 2023 CategoriesMathematicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Adam Marcus, COVID-19, Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School, honesty, Ivan Oransky, John Ioannidis, Matt Ridley, neuroscientists, Retraction Watch, scandal, science, Stanford University, The Guardian, Theo Baker, Times Higher Education Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check Denyse O’Leary August 13, 2023 Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 5 In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention. Read More ›
WhSouthLawn Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date May 16, 2020 CategoriesMedicine Tagged , Biola University, Center for Science and Culture, coronavirus, COVID-19, Douglas Axe, economics, Jay Bhattacharya, John Ioannidis, lockdown, Rockefeller University, Scott Atlas, Stanford University Medical Center, Stephen Meyer, The Federalist, White House Stephen Meyer: Teach the (Coronavirus) Controversy David Klinghoffer May 16, 2020 Medicine 4 Students and Presidents make better decisions when they are exposed to competing views. Read More ›
180225_web Type post Date September 14, 2018 CategoriesArchaeologyAstronomyIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, BBC News, Breakthrough Listen, Design Inference, graffiti, intelligent design, John Ioannidis, Nature (journal), ochre, paleolithic, prehistoric humans, publishing, Science Advances, SETI, South Africa “Oldest Known Drawing,” and More Cases of Intelligent Design at Work in Science Science and Culture September 14, 2018 Archaeology, Astronomy, Intelligent Design 6 Some scientists may denounce ID as a movement, but they find its practice very useful. Read More ›
on the rocks Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date November 21, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionLife SciencesMedicine Tagged , __k-review, data, evolution, evolutionary biology, John Ioannidis, medicine, narrative gloss, Nautilus, pharmacology, Philip Ball, Research, scandal, science, skepticism, Stanford University, storytelling, University of Virginia Science on the Rocks Sarah Chaffee November 21, 2017 Evolution, Life Sciences, Medicine 2 Perhaps confidence in science can, at times, undermine science itself. How much real history has evolutionary storytelling obscured? Read More ›
female-editing-text-with-red-pen-stockpack-adobe-stock-1359197615-stockpack-adobestock Type post Date January 2, 2013 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMetascienceScientific TrustworthinessTechnology Tagged , __nedited, Big Data, confirmation bias, credibility, data integrity, data preservation, data science, John Ioannidis, Library of Alexandria, misinformation, mythology, pragmatism, replicability, replication crisis, reproducibility crisis, sciences, scientific credibility, scientific method, scientific reliability, self-correcting, truth, truth-seeking Science Can Perpetuate Myths Science and 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 ›