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Denyse O'Leary
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September 10, 2020
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The smog is beginning to clear around hydroxychloroquine

Denyse O'Leary
September 10, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
Revealing the way politics has invaded science all the way down, according to Norman Doidge. There’s a good chance that, even though most people don’t directly say it, the reputation of “science” will never recover from this episode. People will disbelieve politely but thoroughly. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 9, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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At Retraction Watch: “Transparently absurd” paper at Elsevier

Denyse O'Leary
September 9, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Peer review
Retraction Watch: Erm, about that concerning peer review process. Elsevier also was the publisher of the equally risible book chapter claiming that COVID-19 came to earth on a meteorite. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 9, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Laszlo Bencze on the claim that falsifiability in science is a “myth”

Denyse O'Leary
September 9, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Bencze: Multiverse theory has no falsifiers. It excludes nothing. No potential fact of existence can falsify it. By contrast Relativity has plenty of falsifiers: Something exceeding the speed of light,… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 8, 2020
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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At Aeon: As a discipline, origin of life is “World’s most theoretically fertile dead end”

Denyse O'Leary
September 8, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
The author, a science writer, keeps orbiting the topic of moving beyond Darwin. Her survey of the scene suggests that researchers are moving beyond Darwin in a variety of different directions. Not clear how they will all meet up… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 8, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Books of interest, Intelligent Design
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Forrest Mims honored in dedication of new electronics book

Denyse O'Leary
September 8, 2020
Academic Freedom, Books of interest, Intelligent Design
Readers may recall that Forrest M. Mims III, despite his gifts in electronics and citizen science, was denied a column in Scientific American because he was not a Darwinist or a supporter of live baby dismemberment. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 7, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Researchers: The space aliens are indeed Out There! But they’re “lyfe,” not life

Denyse O'Leary
September 7, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
From The Guardian: The two researchers say there are “sublyfe” systems that only meet some of these criteria, and also perhaps “superlyfe” that meets additional ones: lyfe forms that have capabilities beyond ours and that might look on us as we do on complex but non-living processes such as crystal growth. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 7, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
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Where Wallace can shed light and Darwin can’t

Denyse O'Leary
September 7, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
From ENST: ... how did humans by means of natural selection alone develop language and sophisticated verbal communication? The answer: we didn’t. It was a product inherent in us, what Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin’s partner and challenger, said it was all along, an intrinsic part of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 6, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind
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A cosmopsychist talks about the universe, God, and free will

Denyse O'Leary
September 6, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Mind
Bernardo Kastrup: Well, there certainly is something out there that is independent of all of us as individual minds, and which seems to hold the state of the world when nobody is looking at the world. Read More ›