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Retraction Crisis

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Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

Beware of wildly popular sociology that tells us that our public policy preferences are somehow embedded in human nature. Life was never as simple as that. Read More ›
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China Leads the World in Retracted Science Papers

Seven of the Top Ten retraction hotspots are in China but India, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia also make an appearance. Read More ›
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Peer Review May Be Beyond Reform

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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The Incredible Design of Vertebrate Blood Clotting

Recently, a commenter on the Center for Science and Culture’s Facebook page asked about a paper by the late biochemist Russell F. Doolittle. Read More ›
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Design Detection in the New York Times — The Issue of Science Fraud

When the pincer closes around a pattern, intelligent causation is uniquely implicated. Read More ›
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Concluding Thoughts on “Gracious Dialogue” with BioLogos

What a peculiar thing to do. You invite someone for a “dialogue” and then, only once he’s left the building, do you start debating with him. Read More ›
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“This Is Not Your Father’s Creationism”: Atheist Michael Shermer Meets Stephen Meyer

Every cosmology either has theistic implications, or ends up wrecking the basis for rational scientific investigation of nature. Read More ›
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Darrel Falk Badly Mischaracterizes RNA World Experiments. . .and Stephen Meyer

Falk claims that Meyer misled his readers by not mentioning an allegedly significant newer result. Read More ›
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Requesting a (Partial) Retraction from Darrel Falk and BioLogos

Why an avowedly Christian group would have its guns out for the God hypothesis is an interesting question from a psychological perspective. Read More ›
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BioLogos and the Search for Truth

Exactly how have the viewpoints at BioLogos been amended? Like a summer’s day in Seattle, it’s a bit cloudy — at least on the most interesting points. Read More ›

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