Denyse O'Leary
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
At Psych Mag: How Your Brain Allegedly Invented God…
Not THIS again, you say? Yes, this again. Straight out of the 1970s, as if the last fifty years of research never happened
Change: Charles Murray Finds Out That He Does Need God
This growing interest in religion is a trend. It is all coming too close together to just be an accident of timing.
On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Flew Out the Window
Why did atheists, in charge of science during the last few decades, yield the floor to irrational forces?
Researchers Ask: What Happens After a Near-Death Experience?
The experiences themselves tend to attract attention and study. But how do they really change lives?
The more we study our ancestors, the smarter they turn out to be
Why Materialism Will Probably Drift Into Panpsychism
I predict that “Nothing is conscious” will be superseded, among fashionable thinkers, by “Everything is conscious.”
Reviewer Asks: Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?
Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book, God, the Science, the Evidence, raises a stark question
The Science of Extraterrestrials: The Art of Keeping Hope Alive
The science literature on the topic shows an interesting and entertaining back-and-forth relationship with science fiction
How Many Random Blips Are Needed To Make a Human?
Just asking for a friend… no, seriously, a look at some recent news from human paleontology