Darwin’s man Jerry Coyne has begun to worry about Wokeness
If we need AlphaFold to figure out protein folding, how likely is protein folding to be a product of mere chance?
There. It’s over! There is no life on Venus
Pushback at StatNews against politicizing science. Rob Sheldon weighs in
Michael Egnor addresses an objection to free will raised here at Uncommon Descent
Quote of the Day
“There is no such thing as truth. Science is a social phenomenon and like every other social phenomenon is limited by the benefit or injury it confers on the community” Adolph Hitler* (or your average woke postmodern academic) When you hear a progressive talk about “white science” or “patriarchal science” or “Western science” you should hear an echo of the “Jewish science” so hated by the Nazis. The impetus behind cordoning science (or any other universal enterprise) along tribalist lines is indentical. _________ *quoted in Daniel, G. (1962) The Idea of Pre-History, London: C.A. Walts and Co, p. 147,
What happened when someone tried making “wisdom” a science
Space aliens – if we can see them they can see us
Apparently, canceling Jordan Peterson didn’t really work
Room temperature superconductivity achieved (but at huge, crushing pressures)
From Nature: Published: 14 October 2020Room-temperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous sulfurhydrideElliot Snider, Nathan Dasenbrock-Gammon, Raymond McBride, Mathew Debessai, HiranyaVindana, Kevin Vencatasamy, Keith V. Lawler, Ashkan Salamat & Ranga P. Dias Nature 586, 373–377(2020) One of the long-standing challenges in experimental physics is the observation of room-temperature superconductivity1’2. Recently, high-temperature conventional superconductivity in hydrogen-rich materials has been reported in several systems under high pressure . . . Here we report superconductivity in a photochemically transformed carbonaceous sulfur hydride system, starting from elemental precursors, with a maximum superconducting transition temperature of 287.7 +/- 1.2 kelvin (about 15 degrees Celsius) achieved at 267 +/- 10 gigapascals. The superconducting state is observed over a broad pressure range in the diamond anvil cell, from 140 to Read More ›
The Boy Who Cried “Solipsism:” The MRT Delusion Objection Is Unfounded
(No insult or mocking intended by use of the word “boy.” Those that have been redacted in other threads are given a second chance to participate here. Off-topic comments will probably be redacted. Let’s keep it civil.) The two biggest objections to Mental Reality Theory is are: (1) it is essentially solipsist, and (2) it has no means of determining between “reality” and “delusion.” I’m going to address those items in this thread. Any hypothesis that an external physical world exists must include aspects of mental reality theory or else it fails. The ERT proponent must insist there are at least three distinct categories of mental experience that are entirely real: (1) that which is correlated to the external world; Read More ›