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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 13, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Peer review
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New Zealand’s Royal Society grudgingly lets off two scientists who critiqued “Indigenous ways of knowing” as conventional science

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March 13, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Jerry Coyne: As I said, the controversy over the hegemony of MM [Indigenous ways of knowing taught as science] in science continues, and if I know anything about New Zealand educational politics, MM will worm its way into science class. All the new RSNZ statement does is exculpate two scientists unfairly accused of misbehavior and harm for saying that MM, while worthy of being taught, is not coequal with modern science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 12, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Tree of life
Video
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Darwin’s tree of life is just… ground cover?

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March 12, 2022
Intelligent Design, Tree of life, Video
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"Charles Darwin himself predicted that countless intermediate animal forms must exist within the fossil record, given that organisms gradually evolved from one species into the next. However, what the fossil record actually shows is the exact opposite, namely, that whenever new species appear, they do so suddenly and without evidence of precursory forms in the geological record." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 12, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Origin Of Life
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Rob Sheldon on the problems with the peptide origin of life hypothesis

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March 12, 2022
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Sheldon: It is unlikely life can start with one or a few amino acids, because the full suite is needed to build nano-machines. Although your car has lots of bolts, one cannot build a car out of nothing but bolts. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 12, 2022
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Asked by science watchdog: Why is Lancet — famed medical journal — into anti-science advocacy?

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March 12, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Sure, “anti-science” is a loaded term. So often, it just means inconvenient science or “unacceptable views” or revelations of ties that should definitely be investigated. Or whatever. In some cases, it can mean a preference for Wokeness over facts. We think that’s what American Council on Science and Health is referring to here. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 11, 2022
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Animal minds
Intelligent Design
stasis
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The oldest cephalopods — much older than thought — had 10 working arms, not 8

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March 11, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, stasis
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Wouldn’t that mean that the cephalopods had an even more complex nervous system in the past? For that matter, why do we hear about so much stasis and so little about evolution? The evolution must be happening very fast, punctuated by long periods of stasis. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 11, 2022
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Intelligent Design
Peer review
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Would you believe? Science ghostwriting factories in China

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March 11, 2022
Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Epoch Times: A reporter from Xinhua Viewpoint, a column of official media Xinhua, posing as a cardiovascular and cerebrovascular physician contacted numerous paper factories and was told that all levels of dissertation could be written and published for him as long as the delivery time was not too short, according to Xinhua in a Jan. 11 report. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 11, 2022
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extinction
Genetics
Intelligent Design
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Researchers: CRISPR is not the big answer to de-extinction

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March 11, 2022
extinction, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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With genes as with documents, how much do the lost ones matter? If the recreated passenger pigeon was pretty much like the old one, what difference would it make? Shouldn’t the main question be, is this a good ecological idea overall? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 10, 2022
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
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Why physicists adhere to quantum theory despite bafflement

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March 10, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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At Symmetry Magazine: Quantum field theory is rife with something mathematicians can’t stand: unresolved infinities. In a 1977 essay, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg wrote that “[Quantum field theory’s] reputation among physicists suffered frequent fluctuations… at times dropping so low that quantum field theory came close to be[ing] abandoned altogether.” (But it was kept because it works. And what might that point to?) Read More ›