Here: “The move comes after the Waking Up podcast host was slammed for stating that he hated Trump to such an extent that he wouldn’t have cared if Hunter Biden “had the corpses of children in his basement” in the lead up to the 2020 election.” Readers may better remember Harris as a prominent new Read More…
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Denyse O'Leary is the News blogger for Uncommon Descent
At Nature: Dozens of papers co-authored by Nobel laureate raise concerns
“Across the 32 papers that have so far drawn publisher scrutiny, all list Semenza as an author, but there are many combinations of different co-authors.” – Holly Else
At Nature: Authors’ names have “astonishing” influence in science
Surely the author of this paywalled article, Nicola Jones, is joking if she claims to be astonished. Does she think we are all the slow class? Her mistake.
George Ellis argues: We can’t know if the universe had a beginning
Well, if the universe did not have a start, it must always have existed. And that’s the dreaded territory of Hilbert’s Hotel and infinity apart from mathematics.
Bill Dembski offers some guidance on reading Darwinian Jason Rosenhouse
Bill Dembski: So much in Rosenhouse’s book is careless, sloppy, giving no indication that he has carefully studied and adequately comprehended my work or that of my colleagues.
Is there evidence for natural selection?
Otangelo Grasso: I am looking for comments, if my conclusion is sound, that evolution cannot be a theory. It cannot be tested, on how natural selection influences differential reproduction and the fitness landscape. Is there evidence for natural selection?
At The College Fix: Canceled intelligent design professor returns to Ball State U. with message: ‘God’s Not Dead’
College Fix: A physics professor whose class considering intelligent design thrust Ball State University into the national spotlight years ago is scheduled to return to his old campus, which had shut down his popular “Boundaries of Science” course.
At Bio-Complexity: The Cardiovascular System of Antarctic Icefish Appears to Have Been Designed to Utilize Hemoglobinless Blood
Gregory Sloop: …coordinated acquisition of multiple unique features, as required by the absence of hemoglobin, is inconsistent with Darwinian evolution, which postulates that species develop by small, incremental changes over time.
At City Journal: Review of book attempting to scuff out the lab leak theory re COVID-19
Wade: “The lab at Wuhan, where researchers were manipulating Covid-type viruses, received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Could Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, the NIH’s senior officials, have had any possible motive for suppressing their experts’ initial conclusion that the Covid virus was probably artificial?”
At Mind Matters News: Why it’s difficult for science to answer some basic questions
We can only research and see what happens, as the questions science is expected to answer grow more basic and more profound.
Otangelo Grasso has a new book out — Origin of life and the virus world
Good thing someone is including the virus world in the discussion.
At Mind Matters News: Smoke and drink too much? Blame Neanderthal man!
Actually, in recent years, researchers have found evidence of a rich Neanderthal culture, belying the stereotypes we have incorporated into our culture. So when did human evolution actually take place?
At Mind Matters News: New function for our brains’ cerebellum: Emotional memory
At least neuroscience is past the “lizard brain” theory and all that. Takehome: If a number of brain regions are affected by traumatic memories, recovery may be prolonged. “Aw, get OVER it!” will be even less useful advice.
At Mind Matters News: Researchers are zeroing in on animal number sense
It’s long been known by observation that many life forms can count, up to a point. The question of how, exactly, they do it is the science goal at present.
At Mind Matters News: One-celled life form uses early “computer” to stand in for brain
The researchers suspect that other single-celled life forms also use something roughly like early computing methods as an alternative to a brain.