Tag: settled science

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 18, 2025

Categories
Environment & Climate
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, ABC, cancel culture, carbon dioxide, Casey Luskin, Charlie Kirk, climate, climate change, comedians, Elsevier journals, entertainment industry, evolution, evolutionary biologists, ideological differences, ideology, Jerry Coyne, Jimmy Kimmel, journals, lawsuits, Marcel Crok, peer-reviewed articles, physicists, Plato's Revenge, predictions, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, ratings, researchers, Richard Sternberg, Sabine Hossenfelder, settled science, skepticism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Colbert, Stephen Meyer, The College Fix}

Great Science Cancellation Continues: Here’s the Latest Victim

_{David Klinghoffer
September 18, 2025

Environment & Climate, Scientific Freedom

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In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
May 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anthony Fauci, Blaise Pasca, bleeding, caloric theory of heat, Caltech, Church of Scientism, climate change, COVID shots, Darwinian evolution, epidemiology, falsified theories, famine, geocentrism, global warming, history of science, John West, miasma theory of disease, Michael Crichton, neuroscience, phlogiston, quantum mechanics, settled science, spontaneous generation, static universe, Stephen Hawking, Stockholm Syndrome Christianity, ulcers}

The Myth of “Settled Science”

_{Robert J. Marks II
May 20, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Einstein was wrong. Quantum mechanics does not follow the principle of “local causality.” God apparently does play dice with the universe. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 24, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, bias, COSM, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, editors, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, Larry Sanger, LarrySanger.org, Nathan Jacobson, natural selection, random mutation, settled science, truth-seeking, Wikipedia}

Larry Sanger on Wikipedia, AI, and Preserving Human Knowledge

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 24, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning

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Discovery Institute is no stranger to bias on Wikipedia, of course. Look no further than the Wikipedia entry for intelligent design. Read More ›

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Date
July 17, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, “consensus science”, chatbots, Gary Smith, junk science, large language models, Massimo Pigliucci, p-hacking, pseudoscience, science, settled science}

Three Genuine Tells of Junk Science

_{Science and Culture
July 17, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution, Scientific Trustworthiness

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This comes to us hard on the heels of philosopher Massimo Pigliucci’s effort to identify “pseudoscience.” Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 2, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Tagged
, “consensus science”, adult stem cells, anti-science, blood, bone marrow, cancer, chemotherapy, diseases, embryonic stem cells, gold standard, HIV, media, mutations, Politicians, settled science, stem cells, The New England Journal of Medicine}

Adult Stem-Cell Cure for HIV?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 2, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine

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A “consensus science” that seeks to stifle open scientific inquiry and heterodox advocacy harms the scientific quest for truth. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 22, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, “consensus science”, adult stem cells, anti-science, appendix, charlatans, COVID-19, Darwinian evolution, embryonic stem cells, epidemiologists, FDA, Francis Collins, free speech, gender affirmation, George W. Bush, Great Barrington Declaration, gut bacteria, Jay Bhattacharya, knowledge, lockdowns, medicine, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Royal Society, science, Scientific American, settled science, Stanford University, vestigial structures}

Stifling Opposition Is the Real “Anti-Science”

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 22, 2024

Evolution, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

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In the Great Barrington Declaration, three noted epidemiologists questioned the wisdom of societal shutdowns and keeping children out of school. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
April 5, 2023

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Paleontology
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Arctic Ocean, Asian elephant, bison, Brave New World, carbon dioxide, CRISPR-Cas9, de-extinction, DNA, elephants, epigenetics, extinction, global warming, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, Ice Age, marsupials, methane, North America, passenger pigeon, Pleistocene, Pleistocene Park, Sergey Zimov, settled science, Siberia, South Africa, The Atlantic, wooly mammoth}

Pleistocene Park: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

_{Rob Sheldon
April 5, 2023

Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology

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The idea is to recreate some of the DNA from the sequencing of frozen mammoths, and inject it into an Asian elephant egg. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Medical Association, cancer, children, conception, egg, embryo, human being, human life, law, National Academy of Sciences, newborn, parasite, public policy, scientists, settled science, sperm, womb, zygote}

Fact Check: Yes, Human Life Begins at Fertilization

_{Michael Egnor
May 10, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Ethics, Medicine

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So what are we to make of a scientific profession in which scientific experts consistently distort the science of human life? Read More ›

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Date
October 22, 2016

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __tedited, Jerry Coyne, materialism, scientism, settled science, The Kingdom of Speech}

Tom Wolfe and the “Kudzu” of “Settled Science”

_{Science and Culture
October 22, 2016

Evolution

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Writing in Commentary, Andrew Ferguson offers a fantastic review of Wolfe's takedown of Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 24, 2016

Categories
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __tedited, evolutionary assumptions, falsifiability, inductive reasoning, scientific method, settled science}

The Devil May Not Be in the Details — But the Truth Is

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 24, 2016

Scientific Reasoning

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It's common to hear evolution presented as a nearly impregnable theory. Read More ›