Why don’t we remember being babies? Researchers challenge theory
Their brain imaging research suggests that infants do remember things but the memories are not accessed later in life.
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Denyse O'Leary
How Our Expert Classes Have Torpedoed Public Trust
Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choiceAll that said, it’s not villains who keep Cancel Culture going. It’s people for whom being Nice is far more important than telling the truth.
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Can Christianity Just Abandon the Idea of the Soul?
Theologian Nancey Murphy thinks that the Christian tradition can do without the idea of a soul, by relying only on faith in a bodily resurrectionThe view Murphy outlines at Closer to Truth has more in common with modern materialism than with a traditional Christian understanding of the human soul.
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If the Tiniest Brain Is Far From Simple, How Did It Originate?
Eric Cassell’s account of the brain of the nematode worm C. elegans sparks a number of interesting questionsResearchers have used the usually avoided term “directed evolution” — which may suggest design — to account for the worm’s tiny, complex brain.
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Abstract Reasoning in Human Ancestors: Earlier Than Thought?
Researchers say, bone tools were being mass produced 1.5 million years ago in the in Olduvai Gorge in TanzaniaThe question naturally arises, was the normally developed human mind ever incapable of abstract thought? That’s a challenge to accepted evolution theories.
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New Angel Studios documentary: Live Not by Lies
The four-part series discusses the way that the totalitarianism that Soviet dissidents warned about is emerging in Western society today.
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Should the Iconic Stanford Prison Experiment Study Be Retracted?
Within six months of the death of the famous sociologist who devised it, long-simmering questions have risen to the surfaceBeware 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.
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NYT on COVID: Not “Badly Misled.” One of the Worst Misleaders!
The Times writer smears legitimate doubt by associating it with unnamed questionable persons and causes — that works if people don’t know the storyLegacy media are giving way to broader-based social media. But trust in science is also at a low ebb. And what’s the replacement for science?
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Researchers Ask: When Are Children Conscious Before Birth?
Human consciousness in general is acknowledged to be a Hard Problem and prenatal consciousness is a subset of thatIf examples of terminal and paradoxical lucidity in old age are any guide, we should not conclude that children must lack consciousness before a given stage.
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NR editors decry the residential schools “mass graves” claims
They are right to call the whole episode disgraceful. But they should not assume that private truth hysteria can strike only in Canada.
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Consciousness: Reductionism’s Final Hill — the One To Die On?
The reductionist has no more information than anyone else about the origin of human consciousness and isn’t making any better sense of the evidence we do haveIs science about following the evidence or about confirming a materialist ideology about science? This is the big neuroscience question of our century.
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When end-of-life lucidity struggles with delirium…
Curiously, Erard’s own grandmother’s last contact with him did not seem so much to be delirium as simply a different cultural understanding from his.
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Stop Moaning About the ‘Mainstream Media’. You Are the Media Now
Social media have become much more important, relative to traditional news media and we are only beginning to grasp the profound implicationsPeople can now build in their own spare rooms an audience that used to require printing presses or big TV studios. No surprise, governments want control.
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Clinical Psychologist Defends Human Exceptionalism
Gregg Henriques is responding to an evolutionary biologist who sees recognition of human uniqueness as “speciesism,” akin to racism and sexismFrom a secular humanist perspective, he says roughly what Aristotle (384– 322 BC) and Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) would say about our unique human nature.
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The U.S. government has been funding European journalism too
If the U.S. funds Moldova’s media instead of Russia, the basic problem remains: A foreign government is funding the public news service.
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John West’s New Book Stockholm Syndrome Looks at Francis Collins
It’s not possible to reconcile Collins’s treatment of unborn children with a Christian view of themThe genome mapper is widely cited as a famous Christian in science but West asks us to look a little deeper — into his actual policies.
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Lifestyle Factors Associated With the Risk of Early Dementia
Here are the factors that researchers found in a study of over 350,000 people to be significantly associated young-onset dementia (YOD)Correlations can provide valuable information but they are not causation and they need to be assessed carefully.
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Fallout From Alzheimer Research Failures: Does Anything Work?
Other research suggests that treating poor oral health, vision loss, and hearing loss might delay or reduce the effects of cognitive declinePerhaps, instead of seeking a single cause-effect pattern, we should look at overall cognitive decline and health neglect. Many elements are treatable.
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Ottawa ceases funding the search for phantom graves
Misinforming children is a very small part of the damage that private truth, which is incompatible with an open and science-based society, does.
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Defining an Ape Theory of Mind Into Existence
We are told that “recognizing when someone else lacks information” has been thought to be a distinctly human trait. Really?The researchers have set out to show that bonobos have a theory of mind. Are they willing to consider that dogs might have a similar theory of mind?
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