Often used to dismiss the masses of evidence for fine-tuning of our universe, as opposed to chance. From Tim Barnett at Salvo: This response may have some rhetorical force, but it makes a fundamental mistake. To expose the error, let me give you another illustration. Imagine your best friend has been murdered and the lead […]
Month: June 2017
Post-fact science and the war on evidence
From Denyse O’Leary at Salvo: s there a “crisis” in cosmology, as science writer Dennis Overbye tells us at the New York Times? Or does cosmology merely face “challenges,” as we read at Scientific American? Either way, the tale grows strange. We have so much more data now, but it does not provide the evidence […]
Nature: Keep shouting to save science
Sure. That’ll work. From Nature: Keep shouting to save science: As political leaders on either side of the Atlantic set out contrasting positions on science funding, researchers everywhere need to ensure that their voices are heard. It is the best and worst of political times for science. … The US government has always been one […]
Darwinism: Kin selection row goes on… and on… now a deafening din
From ENV: Kin selectionists think that natural selection favors genes of related individuals. The idea, also called inclusive fitness, purports to explain self-sacrifice in animals and humans — why worker ants serve the queen without reproducing themselves, and why humans put themselves in danger for their families. Some of their genes, presumably, will be passed […]