Tag: Stanford University

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, bloodhounds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, electrodes, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, Gordon Gallup Jr., inner conversation, inner speech, intelligent design, Jiminy Cricket, Lampwick, magpies, Michael Egnor, mirror test, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, radio show, red dot test, Rottweilers, self-talk, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

Focused man wearing futuristic brain computer interface intense concentration

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, brain implant, brain-computer interfaces, BrainGate2, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, dissidents, English, Erin Kunz, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Francis Willett, government, Ian Fleming, inner speech, Jacques Vidal, Manhasset, monologue, neuroscience, new york, Rudy Molinek, Sarah Wandelt, Smithsonian Magazine, speech, Stanford University, stroke, technology, UCLA}

A Device to Read Minds? Not What Researchers Intended, But…

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 19, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

"There’s a voice inside most people’s minds that comes alive when they listen, read, or prepare to speak." Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, amino acids, cells, chemical processes, codes, dead end, Francis Crick, Hoover Institution, information, intelligent design, James Tour, languages, molecules, origin of life, Peter Robinson, proteins, Richard Dawkins, saccharides, Shannon information, specified complexity, specified information, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer}

From Dead Ends to Design: Meyer and Tour on Life’s Code

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 7, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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“Molecules,” chemist James Tour notes, “have “no propensity… to move toward life.” Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Doubt, digital code, DNA, Hoover Institution, James Tour, Miller-Urey experiment, origin of life, Peter Robinson, primordial soup, Rice University, scam, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Meyer, Uncommon Knowledge, Watson and Crick}

The Unsolved Mystery of Life’s Origin: Stephen Meyer and James Tour

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 4, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

3}

How did life originate? For decades, many scientists clung to “primordial soup” models. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 16, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, animal forms, Darwin's Doubt, Darwinian evolution, David Berlinski, David Gelernter, Hoover Institution, ID the Future, Peter Robinson, podcast, Stanford University, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Knowledge, Yale University}

The Mathematical Case Against Darwinian Evolution

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 16, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

3}

The interview was inspired by Professor Gelernter’s essay “Giving Up Darwin: A Fond Farewell to a Brilliant and Beautiful Theory.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Psychology
Sociology
Tagged
, anxiety, Augustine Brannigan, college students, crying, emotional depression, experimental design, Office of Naval Research, penologists, persistent scientific errors, Philip G. Zimbardo, prison breaks, prisoner abuse, prisoners, psychologists, public policy, rage, Retraction Crisis, Retraction Watch, San Quentin State Prison, self-correcting, social psychology, Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanford University, study design, Thibault Le Texier, University of Calgary}

Retract the Stanford Prison Experiment?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 21, 2025

Bioethics, Psychology, Sociology

7}

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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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, infinite chain, infinite regress, movement, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe}

Revenge of the Turtle Lady

_{Daniel Witt
March 11, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

14}

You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, accountability, bureaucrats, children, Congress, COVID-19, deaths, Declaration of Independence, Democrats, English, experts, Hoover Institution, Humanize, Jay Bhattacharya, leadership, liberty, lockdowns, National Institutes of Health, pandemic, Republicans, Scott Atlas, Stanford University, vaccine, vaccine mandates, viruses, Wall Street Journal, Washington DC, Washington State, Wesley J. Smith}

Let’s Not Forget About That Covid Commission

_{David Klinghoffer
March 5, 2025

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

5}

When speaking of the disaster that began to unfold in 2020, do you refer to it as the Covid “pandemic” or the Covid “lockdowns and vaccine mandates”? Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, artificial intelligence, Belgium, bias, chatbot, climate change, Gary Smith, hallucination, medicine, neuroscience, privacy, psychiatry, safety, Stanford University, suicide}

Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

_{Science and Culture
February 25, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
December 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Ann Gauger, atheism, Brian Miller, Brown University, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, citation bluffing, Darwin Day, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dave Farina, Debating Design, Douglas Axe, Emily Reeves, Ernst Mayr, Finding Darwin's God, Francis Collins, Guillermo Gonzalez, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, junk DNA, Kenneth Miller, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Behe, Nature’s Destiny, No Free Lunch, Oxford University, Oxford University Press, Professor Dave, proteins, PZ Myers, Richard Dawkins, Robert Laughlin, Signature in the Cell, Stanford University, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Design Inference, The Edge of Evolution, The Privileged Planet, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago, University of Minnesota, What Darwin Didn’t Know}

No. 2 Story of 2024: Darwinists Devolve

_{John G. West
December 31, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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One sign of a robust scientific theory is the quality of its most prominent proponents. But serious advocates of Darwinism have become an endangered species. Read More ›