CategoryScience
The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals
The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — even if their bias is ruining historic reputations
Idealism: Rethinking Reality Through a Divine Lens
Douglas Axe’s defense of idealism as a philosophy in a recent podcast should prompt deep questions: In what sense is the physical world real?
Science Writer: Research Should Not Be Publicly Funded
He defends his view by pointing out that waste, futility, and fraud are too frequent outcomes of taxpayer funding
University Science War: Ideas vs “Dollars per Net Square Footage”
Katalin Karikó, obscure and mistreated at the University of Pennsylvania, won the Nobel Prize. Shouldn’t we have some questions?
Near-Death Stories: Has An Undiscovered Country Been Discovered?
A Catholic priest looks at ways we can understand these brushes with an unseen world
At NIH, Bhattacharya Hopes to Restore Open Discussion in Science
In a recent interview, he seemed surprisingly conciliatory to those who attempted to ruin his career over his dissenting views on Covid.
The Enduring Self and the Case for Substance Dualism
On our most recent podcast, philosophers make the case that if mind is illusion, so too is the scientific enterprise
75% of Scientists in Nature Survey Thinking About Leaving U.S.
But there is less to this "trend" than meets the eye, when we look more closely at the survey
Stand Up for (Ideological) Science 2025 Day!
The protestors should have rallied against themselves
Science Blogger: Make Violating “Scientific Consensus” a Crime
Attitudes like those expressed by Ethan Siegel have cost the scientific sector much of the public’s trust and goodwill.
Ross Douthat Makes the Case that Religious Belief Is Rational
His new book is written largely with the agnostic or full-on atheist in mind but believers would certainly also benefit, as I did
Does Everyone Think We Should Exaggerate Scientific Advances?
Many “breakthroughs” reported breathlessly in media are nowhere close to resulting in usable products or services
1. When actual experiences challenge the viewpoints of skeptics
Sean McDowell recently hosted J. Steve Miller to talk about his top five believable near-death experiences
New Book: The Catholic Case for the Design of Nature
Fr. Martin Hilbert notes that the history of life seems more like a separate collection of bushes than a single tree
Scientists Wrestling With Human Consciousness Are In For the Win
Yet they can’t win because what they are doing amounts to a form of shadow boxing
Daniel Dennett Made Atheism Easy to Understand
In the process, he somehow also made it less believable
Is Science in Our Frame of Reality Inevitably Incomplete?
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that human consciousness isn’t a material phenomenon like any other; it has one foot in time and another in eternity
Evolution Journal Editors Resign After AI Takes Over
Publisher Elsevier seems to have created a lot of extra work for the editors by introducing AI-generated errors into the publishing process