ancient-greek-marble-sculpture-taped-lips-aesthetic-backgrou-403969344-stockpack-adobestock Type post Date July 9, 2026 CategoriesLinguisticsScientific FreedomSocial Sciences Tagged , 1984 (novel), censorship, COVID-19, disinformation, domestic extremism, English, George Orwell, government, Harvard University, information, Jacob Siegel, Joe Biden, language, lockdowns, malinformation, neologisms, Newspeak, Oldspeak, Skepticalifornia, surveillance, The Information State, thoughtcrime, UnHerd “Malinformation” — Another Sinister Neologism from the Folks Who Specialize in Them Science & Culture July 9, 2026 Linguistics, Scientific Freedom, Social Sciences 3 The government got lots of support from an academic elite that was anxious to introduce Newspeak terms including “malinformation.” Read More ›
HowproteinsaremadeNSF Type post Date April 6, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , 1984, Andrew Ellington, Arizona State University, Biodesign Institute, biology, catastrophe, creationists, DNA, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biology, George Orwell, Julian Huxley, Michael Lynch, molecular complexity, mutation rates, National Academy of Sciences, neo-Darwinian theory, novels, population geneticists, population sizes, proteins, Ribosome, RNA, story-telling, thoughtcrime Design Haunts a New Hypothesis for the Origin of the Ribosome Science & Culture April 6, 2026 Evolution, Intelligent Design 5 It’s worth paying some attention to the identity of the first author, population geneticist Michael Lynch of the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State. Read More ›
