Denyse O'Leary
Why are there 350 different theories of consciousness?
Neuroscience: Brain genes behave differently in men vs. women
Science on Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs Explaining Away
The first rule of a scientific approach to near-death experiences should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis
Extraterrestrial Life: The Discipline Without a Subject
It’s fascinating but several rhetorical tricks help keep it in the forefront of news
When the Big Bang Cost Physicists Their Lives
A new book from France tells the astonishing story of how governments murdered or drove out scientists to hush up the reality that our universe has a beginning
Denial? Science seeks trust but avoids the need for inner reform
Current science seems to be going full steam ahead to Cancel the means by which it formerly advanced knowledge of the world
Could Neanderthals create art or were they not evolved enough?
Human Tools Found From a Tumultuous Period 2.7 Million Years Ago
The authors talk much about “evolutionary” and “evolution.” But actually, it doesn’t sound as if there was much evolution at all. It sounds more like one enduring insight
This Is New: Top Thinkers Debate Terminal Lucidity
Steven Pinker tells Charles Murray at the Wall Street Journal that people are merely imagining a sudden gain in awareness before dying
What Happens When Science Degenerates Into a Spoils System?
Chemistry prof Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail
The death spiral of trust in legacy media
Journals refuse to correct record on teen “gender” treatments
Wikipedia Qualifies Its “Pseudoscience” Label re Design in Nature
Not only that but newly launched Grokipedia’s entry seems to be written to actually inform the reader rather than to enlist the reader against the topic
Wall Street Journal Takes On Science and the Existence of God
In an interview, first author of the new book out of France, Michel-Yves Bolloré, tells a WSJ editor, “We are now in a century where science is the best ally of God.” That’s news
Will Reliance on AI Mean a Vast Drop in New Knowledge Production?
Dependence on AI assistants, for example, was found to greatly reduce discussion among peers, where new ideas are offered and evaluated
Is “emergence” — materialism’s bandaid — bad science?
For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy
It has often been treated with fear and exclusion. Maybe there is more hope now
How a Biologist Became a Casualty in the War on Reality
If evolutionary biology’s core belief is that everything human can be reduced to animal impulses, truth is merely a survival strategy. But nonsense proved more successful