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Denyse O'Leary
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May 15, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Robert J. Marks: Time to change the peer review system

Denyse O'Leary
May 15, 2020
Intelligent Design, Peer review
Marks: The assumption that today’s peer-reviewed paper has been vetted by experts and therefore has been awarded a blue ribbon for excellence is far from the truth. Peer review often does not do its job. Consequently, today’s collection of scholarly literature is exploding in quantity and deteriorating in quality. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 14, 2020
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Evolutionary psychology
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Rob Sheldon on the prof who challenges evo psych: Covering her tracks carefully…

Denyse O'Leary
May 14, 2020
Evolutionary psychology
Sheldon: Did you notice how Smith trashes Evolutionary Psychology because it uses "circular" reasoning? Then she realizes it sounds like an ID criticism, so she rushes to defend the remaining Evolutionary sciences with this paragraph… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 14, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon dishes on dark matter and dark energy

Denyse O'Leary
May 14, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Rob Sheldon: My takeaway is that dark energy is "pathological science," using the words of Irving Langmuir to describe N-rays or polywater. It is science at the edge of messy data, finding what one is looking for by using poor statistical methods. It is precisely what astronomers are trained NOT to do, and therefore this whole Nobel Prize thing is a corruption of what had been a relatively unstained field. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 14, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Science
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COVID-19 and Vitamin D – data vs noise in science

Denyse O'Leary
May 14, 2020
Intelligent Design, Science
Statistics analyst Gary Smith: Even if COVID-19 deaths are randomly distributed among the population (and they surely aren’t), data mining will, more likely than not, discover a geographic cluster of victims... (Lots of things can start to appear meaningful.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 13, 2020
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Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design
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Philosopher challenges evolutionary psychology

Denyse O'Leary
May 13, 2020
Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design
But that’s not the amazing part. The amazing part is the admission of skepticism at a popular scitech mag. Hey, we can provide lots of examples of flapdoodle. But we took for granted that all these science writers actually believed in it. And not wanting to just pick a stupid useless fight with true believers, we mostly talked (well, okay, hooted, really) among ourselves… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 12, 2020
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Informatics, Information, Intelligent Design
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New paper at Biocomplexity by Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón and Robert J. Marks II

Denyse O'Leary
May 12, 2020
Informatics, Information, Intelligent Design
Paper's conclusion: We have proposed extension of active information for domains other than those confined to a finite interval. Maximum entropy (maxent) is defined on domains other than a finite interval. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 12, 2020
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Information, Intelligent Design, Mind
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When science writer John Horgan reluctantly sort of acknowledged: Information implies minds

Denyse O'Leary
May 12, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Mind
Horgan: The concept of information makes no sense in the absence of something to be informed—that is, a conscious observer capable of choice, or free will (sorry, I can't help it, free will is an obsession). Read More ›
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May 12, 2020
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Big Bang, Defending our Civilization, Logic and Reason, Philosophy, Physics, rhetoric, worldview
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L& FP41: Dawkins, Krauss and trying to pull a world out of “no-thing”

kairosfocus
May 12, 2020
Big Bang, Defending our Civilization, Logic and Reason, Philosophy, Physics, rhetoric, worldview

As Cardinal Pell has been recently cleared, perhaps some may be willing to learn from this telling vid: No, Virginia, you do not get a world from no-thing. END