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Denyse O'Leary
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September 13, 2020
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Academic Freedom
Books of interest
Culture
Intelligent Design
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A fond remembrance of the 2005 book, “On Bullsh*t”

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September 13, 2020
Academic Freedom, Books of interest, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Gunderman: As discourse moves from television to Twitter, it can be further degraded into mere flamboyance. What matters is no longer speaking the truth but simply attracting and holding attention. Getting it right gives way to getting noticed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 13, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
Racism
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At Medium: On the “Impending cancellation of Darwin”

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September 13, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Essentially, Noah Carl is forcing the biology establishment to admit that they can’t impugn Darwin for his racism because he’s their religion. All those other guys can just be trashed. But not Darwin. Not for anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 12, 2020
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Culture
Darwinism
Intelligent Design
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Flap over use of term “intelligent design” in PNAS paper

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September 12, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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It’s possible that what Phillips means by “positive Darwinian selection” is random selection that looks a lot like design. The sin is in actually using words that imply that that IS what it looks like. Just when it looks like they've hammered everything into submission, another bulge appears. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 12, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Rob Sheldon on origin of life as a “theoretically fertile dead end”

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September 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Sheldon: What hinders the field presently is an unstated reliance on materialism and its attendant mechanism, when information is manifestly non-material. What we need to make progress in OoL are matter-free tools for manipulating information: understanding its flow, its gradients, and its concentration. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 11, 2020
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Physics
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Physicist: The whole universe may be a neural network

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September 11, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Vanchurin: “I see no reason why this process should be confined to a particular length scale and so the claim is that everything that we see around us (e.g. particles, atoms, cells, observers, etc.) is the outcome of natural selection.” It doesn’t take very long for Darwinism to become indistinguishable from magic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 10, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Science
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The smog is beginning to clear around hydroxychloroquine

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September 10, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
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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
Date
September 9, 2020
Categories
Extraterrestrial life
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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At Retraction Watch: “Transparently absurd” paper at Elsevier

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September 9, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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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 ›