Tag: replicability

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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
Paul Nelson

Date
September 22, 2014

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, a priori, BioLogos, Bradley Monton, Cambrian Explosion, causation, closed-mindedness, creationists, curiosity, Darwin's Doubt, defeaters, design hypothesis, empiricism, evolution, General Scholium, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, methodological naturalism, methodological pluralism, observability, On the Origin of Species, replicability, Robert Boyle, science, scientific principles, scientific reasoning, scientific revolution, scientific theory, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, testability, theology}

Methodological Naturalism: A Rule That No One Needs or Obeys

_{Paul Nelson
September 22, 2014

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

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The only real motivation for holding to MN is to keep the bad guys at bay, as an all-purpose "Press Button in Case of Emergency" defeater for ideas like intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
January 2, 2013

Categories
Intelligent Design
Metascience
Scientific Trustworthiness
Technology
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

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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 ›