Tag: objectivity

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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
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Environment & Climate
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atmosphere, authority, carbon, climate change, criminality, Extinction Rebellion, fossil fuels, human thriving, ideology, Nature (journal), objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, traffic, trust}

As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 2, 2023

Bioethics, Environment & Climate, Physical Sciences

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The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer's remarkable screed. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 6, 2023

Categories
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, climate scientists, critical race theory, gender ideology, global warming, ideology, journals, media, medicine, Nature (journal), objectivity, Patrick T. Brown, science journals, wokeness}

Why We Can’t Trust the Science Journals — A Climate Scientist Explains

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 6, 2023

Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Patrick Brown left academia so he could engage in better science. And, that allowed him to write this article. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, First Amendment, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Free Science, free speech, objectivity, origins science, Student Academic Freedom in Science resolution, students, United States, universities, University of Chicago}

From FIRE, Good News on Campus Free Speech

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 6, 2020

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

2}

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is out now with a new report. It’s their yearly analysis of speech codes. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
June 16, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Psychology
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, American history, behavior, bias, Caltech, critical thinking, education, evolution, ideology, Internet, knowledge, objectivity, power, science, Scientific American, stem, students, Yale University}

Yale President Calls for Objectivity in Science Education

_{Sarah Chaffee
June 16, 2018

Evolution, Psychology, Science Education

3}

He might not welcome my saying so, but his emphasis on thinking critically and examining evidence is spot-on. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 17, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __k-review, "God of the gaps", bias, cells, co-option, critics, distortion, Douglas Axe, Dover trial, evolution, fear, feedback control, information processing, intelligent design, nanotechnology, objectivity, protein evolution, science, scientists, self-repliation, Tree of Life, type III secretion system, Undeniable (book)}

Cognitive Conditioning and the Distortion of Reality

_{Brian Miller
April 17, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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After following the discussion about evolution versus design for the past few decades, I have noticed a common trend. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 24, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, postmodernism, replication crisis, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics}

Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

_{Richard Weikart
February 24, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
December 1, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, anti-science, community, conservative, definition, fact, hypothesis, ideology, objectivity, Politics, progressive, Sabine Hossenfelder, science, scientific method, scientists, social justice, truth}

Science Is Not Simply “What Scientists Do”

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 1, 2017

Evolution, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

I was alarmed to see physicist Sabine Hossenfelder accept as a definition of ”science,” not a method, but merely “what scientists do.” Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 29, 2016

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __tedited, academic freedom, falsifiability, intellectual freedom, objectivity, political correctness}

A Trigger Warning for Criticisms of Darwinism?

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 29, 2016

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

4}

David Moshman helps explain the threat to academic freedom that we see in the study of evolution and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Political Science
Science Reporting
Tagged
, __tedited, ad hominem, confirmation bias, correlation, ideology, objectivity, subjectivity, trust in scientists}

With Stunning Admission of Error, Scientific Name-Calling Suffers a Setback

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2016

Bioethics, Political Science, Science Reporting

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The discourse of name-calling is a scourge of public life today, and it's only getting worse. Read More ›