file-drawer Type post Author David Coppedge Date May 29, 2025 CategoriesEthicsMetascienceScience Reporting Tagged , accuracy, Alexander Goldberg, artificial intelligence, Blind Man’s Bluff, Christine Coughlin, Dalmeet Singh Chawla, data, data science, evidence, Evolution News, fakery, fallibility, file drawer problem, fraud, generative ai, Gollum Effect, integrity, knowledge, Leipzig, Nancy M. P. King, Nature (journal), objectivity, peer review, PLOS ONE, PNAS, politicization, post-trust, predatory journals, pseudoscience, public trust, Ralf Mrowka, replicability, scientific publishing, scientific reliability, scientists, suppressed evidence, The Conversation, transparency, Wittenberg How the “Scientific Community” Undermines Its Own Trustworthiness David Coppedge May 29, 2025 Ethics, Metascience, Science Reporting 10 The “file drawer problem” leads invariably to biased reporting. It refers to scientists deciding not to report negative results. Read More ›
Galileo Type post Author Cornelius Hunter Date September 12, 2017 CategoriesEnvironment & ClimateFaith & SciencePhysical SciencesScientific Trustworthiness Tagged , __nedited, “consensus science”, anthropogenic global warming, apocalypticism, catastrophism, climate change, coercion, Del Ratzsch, epicycles, fallibility, Galileo Affair, Galileo Galilei, heliocentrism, Johannes Kepler, mythology, perverse incentives, Quartz, rhetorical strategies, Roman Catholic, science, scientism, suppressed evidence, technocracy, Tycho Brahe, Warfare Thesis The Galileo Affair — A Durable Myth Cornelius Hunter September 12, 2017 Environment & Climate, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Trustworthiness 6 The problem with science, as Del Ratzsch has pointed out, is that it is done by people. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date August 20, 2016 CategoriesFaith & ScienceScience Education Tagged , __tedited, "teach the controversy", “consensus science”, anti-science, censorship, conflict myth, faith and science, science education, scientism, suppressed evidence Students, Scientism, and Straw Men Sarah Chaffee August 20, 2016 Faith & Science, Science Education 4 If Barbara King really believes science is about continuous corrections and questions, she should be friendlier to teaching about the evolution controversy. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 21, 2016 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, computational reductionism, determinism, empiricism, free will, human mind, immaterial reality, John Searle, metaphysics, mind-brain problem, self-refutation, suppressed evidence John Searle on Free Will Michael Egnor July 21, 2016 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 5 Modern philosophy of mind is a focused effort to deny human exceptionalism. Read More ›
Type post Author William A. Dembski Date July 6, 2016 CategoriesPaleontologyScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, biogeography, cherry-picking fallacy, common ancestry, convergence, design motifs, empirical evidence, evolutionary time, file drawer problem, fossil record, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, genetics, geological time, incomplete lineage sorting, lineages, promotions, structural motif, suppressed evidence, timeline, transitional links Why Fossils Cannot Demonstrate Darwinian Evolution William A. Dembski July 6, 2016 Paleontology, Scientific Reasoning 10 There are three fundamental problems with all examples of inferring Darwinian evolution on the basis of fossil evidence. Read More ›
Type post Author Sarah Chaffee Date June 22, 2016 CategoriesScience EducationScientific Freedom Tagged , __tedited, "teach the controversy", academic consensus, beliefs, critical thinking, indoctrination, mainstream science, parental consent, public education, science education, suppressed evidence What Is Teaching Evolution All About? Sarah Chaffee June 22, 2016 Science Education, Scientific Freedom 4 Adam Laats and Harvey Siegel offer a seemingly humane and generous compromise on teaching evolution in public schools. Read More ›
fossil-of-the-prehistoric-bird-archeopteryx-stockpack-adobe-745910663-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Jonathan McLatchie Date October 23, 2011 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , __nedited, Archaeopteryx, body plans, butterflies, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, common descent, Darwin, diversification, evolution, evolutionary biology, extinction, fact check, fossil record, fruit flies, horse evolution, horses, Metamorphosis, microevolution, paleontology, phylogeny, suppressed evidence, tiktaalik, whale evolution, Wikipedia Fact-Checking Wikipedia on Common Descent: The Evidence from Paleontology Jonathan McLatchie October 23, 2011 Evolution, Paleontology 19 The fossil record, far from establishing Darwinian theory, only succeeds in hammering one more nail into Darwin's coffin. Read More ›