Why not allow the profitable Teton tourist area to to return to a natural state as a forest on the mountain, as is, apparently, its inherent right?
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Ethan Siegel offers a fantasy representation of the science world. It may comfort him but it might provoke knowledgeable people to trust science even less.
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As we find out what really happened, the credibility of our public-health systems has been shattered and “Trust the science!” is becoming a joke.
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If the law grants geological features, viruses, and pond scum “rights,” our economies and human exceptionalism will be the victims.
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The story highlights once again, the way X (Twitter) is one of the few important social media to resist government censorship.
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When propaganda is easily generated, millions fully embrace their inability to know the truth. They can’t so it doesn’t matter and never will.
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Some of the leaked documents shed light on the corrupt business practices inherent in the hacker ecosystem and on the role of the CCP government.
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What feels remarkable is that people with an interest in political issues have even started to ask these questions. We used to be told they never would.
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Whether it’s good science terminology, the Anthropocene concept broadcasts so much cultural vibe that it may not just go away after a No vote.
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To whatever extent digital information is a form of wealth, its digital producers must always fight counterfeiters — just as currency issuers must do.
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The bee in the bonnets of the researchers who received the funding for the internet censorship program is that Americans can’t tell fact from fiction.
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As the technology advances, companies whose customers will likely be harmed by deepfakes lag behind in strategies to counter them.
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Waymo wisely focused on Level 4 urban self-driving, which is an engineering problem, rather than Level 5’s total autonomy—that’s a philosophical problem.
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When Scientific American withdrew its offer of a column, on learning that Mims doubted Darwinism, we all learned what matters most to the science elite.
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Given the growing power of private truth, the future of science which, like religion, represents public truth is more uncertain than some expect.
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It’s not clear that the case for global government, such as it is, needs an evolution myth; more likely, the evolution proponents just want in on the game.
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The rise and fall of intellectual movements may well now depend on their ability to use new media successfully to express their views.
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A key problem: The legacy media that cling to government and corporate interests in order to survive have so much less use now for freedom of the press.
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One reason there can’t be Final Answers in science is that the questions keep changing as we learn more, and in some cases we are asking the wrong ones.
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Ours is an age of private truth but math and science both took hold in ages of public truth. Neither of them can survive private truth for long.
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