Tag: knowledge

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 29, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Metascience
Science Reporting
Tagged
, accuracy, Alexander Goldberg, artificial intelligence, Blind Man’s Bluff, Christine Coughlin, Dalmeet Singh Chawla, data, data science, evidence, Evolution News, fakery, fallibility, file drawer problem, fraud, generative ai, Gollum Effect, integrity, knowledge, Leipzig, Nancy M. P. King, Nature (journal), objectivity, peer review, PLOS ONE, PNAS, politicization, post-trust, predatory journals, pseudoscience, public trust, Ralf Mrowka, replicability, scientific publishing, scientific reliability, scientists, suppressed evidence, The Conversation, transparency, Wittenberg}

How the “Scientific Community” Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness

_{David Coppedge
May 29, 2025

Ethics, Metascience, Science Reporting

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The “file drawer problem” leads invariably to biased reporting. It refers to scientists deciding not to report negative results. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 11, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, civilization, culture, eagles, film, franchise, humans, intelligence, knowledge, movies, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, pandemic, Planet of the Apes, tyranny, universe, viruses}

An Ape with Evolution on His Mind

_{Peter Biles
May 11, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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“Are you familiar with the concept of evolution?” asks the ape leader who is bent on raising himself to the level of the human. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 8, 2024

Categories
Biology
Ethics
Mathematics
Science Education
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Alvin Plantinga, Aristotle, baseball, brainwashing, Brooklyn College, cancel culture, China, colors, constructivism, deconstruction, doors, Euclid, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, gender, George Orwell, John Archibald Wheeler, Joseph Stalin, knowledge, Live Not By Lies, Michel Foucault, Ontario, philosophers, Pythagoras, Queer Theory, queering, relativism, Richard Rorty, sex, teachers, transgenderism, truth, Twitter, University of Chicago, University of Haifa}

The War on 2 + 2 = 4

_{William A. Dembski
April 8, 2024

Biology, Ethics, Mathematics, Science Education

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The people weighing in against 2 + 2 = 4 are not mathematicians but in education departments where they teach the teaching of mathematics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Big Bang, Big Think, chatbot, consciousness, cosmos, Dartmouth College, developmental biology, human experience, human mind, information, knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, molecular evolution, neuroscience, universe, University of Rochester}

“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 12, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

3}

They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, philosophers, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, storage}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 22, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, adult stem cells, anti-science, appendix, charlatans, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, embryonic stem cells, epidemiologists, FDA, Francis Collins, free speech, gender affirmation, George W. Bush, Great Barrington Declaration, gut bacteria, Jay Bhattacharya, knowledge, lockdowns, medicine, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Royal Society, science, Scientific American, settled science, Stanford University, vestigial structures}

Stifling Opposition Is the Real “Anti-Science”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 22, 2024

Evolution, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

6}

In the Great Barrington Declaration, three noted epidemiologists questioned the wisdom of societal shutdowns and keeping children out of school. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain states, death, dreams, hippocampus, knowledge, memories, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, soul, YouTube videos}

Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
February 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The answer has implications both for neuroscience and for our deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 6, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, causal agents, Christianity, Greco-Roman world, history, humanity, ID the Future, intelligent agents, knowledge, Medieval Europe, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, Michael Keas, natural causes, nature, podcast, scientism, scientists, unintelligent causes, universe}

When Natural and Super-Natural Explanations Work Hand in Hand

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 6, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Methodological naturalism is the idea that scientists may only invoke unintelligent causes for nature’s history. Read More ›

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Date
August 26, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Center for Science and Culture, Discovery Institute, ID the Future, J.P. Moreland, knowledge, Michael Keas, podcast, reality, science, scientism, The Substance of Consciousness, truth, Unbelievable}

J. P. Moreland on the Contradictions of Scientism

_{Science and Culture
August 26, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

1}

Scientism is the belief that only the hard sciences can provide any reliably true knowledge. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, ChatGPT, coffee, complex specified information, creativity, decoherence, Energy, freedom, function, heat, humans, information, intelligent design, kinetic energy, knowledge, Law of Conservation of Information, life, luck, meaning, mind, nature, physical objects, printing press, quantum mechanics, rigged game, Second Law of Thermodynamics, William A. Dembski}

Physics, Information Loss, and Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
July 6, 2023

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Imagine a system where heat flows from a hot region to a cold region under the constraint of the traditional second law of thermodynamics. Read More ›