Max_Bruckner_-_Otto_Henning_-_Richard_Wagner_-_Final_scene_of_Gotterdammerung_-_crop Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date March 21, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionScience Reporting Tagged , biological complexity, biologists, City Journal, Cornelius Hunter, COVID-19, Darwinian processes, evolution, evolutionary biology, fraud, human nature, intelligent design, journalism, New York Times, Nicholas Wade, press release, propaganda, replication crisis, reporters, science writers, scientific papers, skepticism, viruses Why Are Science Reporters So Credulous? David Klinghoffer March 21, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Science Reporting 3 Most journalists who write about evolution appear to have made their choice to be flacks and toadies for the godlike biologists. Read More ›
Steven-Pinker Type post Author Richard Weikart Date February 24, 2018 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPsychology 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 ›
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 ›
