China Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 24, 2019 CategoriesEthicsMedicine Tagged , __edited, China, Communist Party, heart, human rights, kidney, liver, New Scientist, organs, Retraction Watch Fifteen Science Papers Retracted Over China Illegal Organ Harvesting Wesley J. Smith August 24, 2019 Ethics, Medicine 2 Human-rights activists have castigated China for allowing this organ bazaar for years. Read More ›
E-Meter Type post Author Granville Sewell Date August 23, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionScientific Freedom Tagged , __cedited, “consensus science”, Adam Marcus, Applied Mathematics Letters, carbon, earth, Elsevier, entropy, Granville Sewell, intelligent design, natural selection, open system, order, Physics Essays, pseudoscience, Retraction Watch, Second Law of Thermodynamics So, Who Is Doing “Pseudoscience”? Granville Sewell August 23, 2018 Evolution, Scientific Freedom 8 You will be astonished by how corrupt science can become when reviewers are “very, very vigilant” to protect consensus science. Read More ›
Jack Szostak Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date December 8, 2017 CategoriesBiologyIntelligent DesignOrigin of Life Tagged , __cedited, Ann Gauger, belief, bias, Brian Miller, DNA, intelligent design, Jack Szostak, materialism, monomers, Nature Chemistry, peptides, proteins, Retraction Crisis, Retraction Watch, RNA, Scientific American, Signature in the Cell, skepticism, Stephen Meyer Prominent Retraction Vindicates Stephen Meyer and Signature in the Cell David Klinghoffer December 8, 2017 Biology, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life 4 Criticism suggested that Nobel laureate Jack Szostak and others were fast closing in on a solution to the origin-of-life problem with the “principle of RNA self-replication." Read More ›
Blind Leading Blind Type post Author Ann Gauger Date December 7, 2017 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , __cedited, beliefs, bias, Harvard University, humans, Jack Szostak, Nature Chemistry, Nobel laureate, postdoc, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Retraction Crisis, Retraction Watch, RNA, scientists Retractions Show Scientists “Blinded” by Belief Ann Gauger December 7, 2017 Evolution 3 Nobel laureate Jack Szostak has recently retracted a paper. This is a big deal because of who he is and because of where it was published. Read More ›
March for Science Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date November 1, 2017 CategoriesEvolutionPhysical SciencesScience Tagged , __nedited, Big Science, Bill Nye, Bret Weinstein, Darwinism, Evergreen State College, First Things, March for Science, Michael Ruse, naturalism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Normal Science, post-truth, Retraction Watch, truth, Wesley J. Smith Can Science Survive Long in a Post-Modern World? Denyse O’Leary November 1, 2017 Evolution, Physical Sciences, Science 9 It’s not clear. Metaphysical naturalism insists that there is no design in nature and that nature is all there is. Read More ›