Tag: peer review

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic credentials, academic freedom, Claire Lehmann, commenters, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, David Hullender, Elsevier journals, engineered systems, evolution, evolutionary biologists, harassment, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Olen Brown, peer review, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, pseudosciences, Quillette, Richard Dawkins, Scopes trial, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne and His Readers Attack Academic Freedom, and Call for More Intolerance

_{Casey Luskin
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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It became clear that Coyne’s whole point was to gin up harassment of the journal so they won’t publish critiques of evolution in the future. Read More ›

A Glimpse into a Scientist's Mind Through Chalk Drawings

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Date
August 15, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Metascience
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, ambition, American Council for Science and Health, Chuck Dinerstein, COVID-19, credit, CRISPR, data integrity, dishonesty, honesty, incentives, Liam Kofi Bright, London School of Economics, peer review, perverse incentives, prestige, recognition, replication, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, science, scientific integrity, scientists, trust, truth, watchdogs, wealth}

Why Scientists Lie

_{Science and Culture
August 15, 2025

Bioethics, Metascience, Scientific Trustworthiness

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One thing that will really help the discussion, going forward, is to quit blaming the public for not trusting science. Read More ›

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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
Jonathan Wells

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, American Astronomical Society, Biophysical Society, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, Darwinism, defining id, defining science, defining terms, definist fallacy, Enlightenment, evolution, fear mongering, gravity, Harvey Lodish, intelligent design, Is Darwinism a Theory in Crisis? (tribute series), Isaac Newton, materialism, Modern Age, Myth of the Dark Ages, naturalism, Nature (journal), peer review, pseudoscience, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Walther Nernst}

Theory in Crisis? Redefining Science

_{Jonathan Wells
September 26, 2024

Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Scientific revolutions are often marked by disputes over the “standard that distinguishes a real scientific solution from a mere metaphysical speculation.” Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 27, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, intelligent design, Jeffrey Shallit, Larry Sanger, Michael Behe, New York Times, no true Scotsman, peer review, peer-reviewed literature, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Richard Sternberg, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Intelligent Design and the “Stop Hitting Yourself” Argument

_{Daniel Witt
August 27, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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A look at an underexamined rhetorical device, in the hands of Wikipedia and other ID critics. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, bias, censorship, Galileo Affair, heliocentrism, ideas, information, intelligent design, peer review, power, publications, Research, Roman Catholic, scientific community, scientists, self-censorship, trust, truth}

PNAS Paper: “Scientific Censorship Appears to Be Increasing”

_{Casey Luskin
February 20, 2024

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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The intelligent design community is well aware of the problem. One section in the paper that categorizes types of persecution sounds alarmingly familiar. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 18, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Metascience
Paleontology
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, abortions, Campbell's Law, conflict of interest, data integrity, Discovery Institute, disinformation, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), evolutionary biologists, fertility, Frontiers in Psychology, Goodhart's Law, Harvard University, Laszlo Bencze, mental health, Mind Matters, peer review, perverse incentives, pregnancy, pro-life, Retraction Crisis, Robert J. Marks II, Walter Bradley Center}

Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 18, 2024

Bioethics, Metascience, Paleontology, Scientific Trustworthiness

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Harvard is going to have quite a job convincing the world that it is still serious about reality-based thinking, never mind peer review. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 22, 2023

Categories
Cultural Anthropology
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Paleontology
Tagged
, ABC News, afterlife, Arizona State University, bioRxiv, brain, burial, Chris Stringer, Dinaledi Chamber, documentary, eLife, evolution, fire, Homo naledi, Homo sapiens, human origins, humans, intelligence, La Trobe University, Lee Berger, María Martinón-Torres, micromorphology, Natural History Museum, Nature (journal), paleoanthropology, peer review, religion, skeletons, The Guardian, University of Western Australia}

Peer Review Rejects Claims that Homo naledi Buried Dead, Used Fire, and Scrawled on Cave Wall

_{Casey Luskin
September 22, 2023

Cultural Anthropology, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Paleontology

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I could not find a single reviewer who accepted the claims of the papers. They were harshly critical of claims of intentional burial of the skeletons. Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Geology
Paleontology
Tagged
, Archaeopteryx, bioRxiv, birds, breeding, computer scientists, dinosaurs, eggs, evolutionary biology, feathers, Fossil Friday (series), fossil record, Germany, just-so stories, locomotion, Munich, paleontology, pareidolia, peer review, taphonomy, Upper Jurassic, wings}

Fossil Friday: Imagining Eggs in the Famous Archaeopteryx Fossils

_{Günter Bechly
August 18, 2023

Evolution, Geology, Paleontology

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Neither lack of evidence nor conflicting evidence stopped the author from drawing far-reaching conclusions. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 7, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Darwin, faith, Forrest Mims, gender, humanity, molecular biologists, molecular motors, peer review, Physics Today, progress, race, science, Science (journal), scientists, The Descent of Man, trust, University of North Carolina, Wesley Smith}

Repair Trust in Science? In Science Magazine, Forrest Mims Replies

_{Casey Luskin
June 7, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin is an example of a brilliant scientist who was nonetheless an imperfect human with some false ideas. Read More ›