Category: Media
Bots are to blame for science credibility issues!
| December 8, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, Science |
At least, if you credit a National Academy of Sciences study on the subject: Iyengar and Massey (hereafter I & M) are convinced, in any event, that the revolution in media over the last three decades means that the world is sinking into abject falsehood. In the 1970s, as they relate, media were controlled by […]
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
| December 5, 2018 | Posted by News under Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media, theistic evolution |
Karsten Pultz reports from Denmark on efforts to suppress the idea of design in nature that are coming from the Danish church. Mr. Pultz is also the author of “Why I have a problem with theistic evolution,”: Intelligent design being suppressed in academia is old news. But in Denmark even a Christian newspaper participates in […]
Media are flabby from a diet of junk science
| December 2, 2018 | Posted by News under Media, Peer review, Science |
Should we believe them when they tell us that the drinking four cups of coffee daily lowers our risk of death people with spouses live longer? A statistician and a physician team up to explain why not: A subtler manifestation of dishonesty in research is what amounts to statistical cheating. Here is how it works… […]
Theoretical physicist: My field is not going to the dogs
| November 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Physics |
In recent years, a number of theoretical physicists have raised concerns about stagnation and cool-sounding programs that produce little but TED talks. Now one replies, pointing out that if we leave the wild world of string theory out of the picture, theoretical physicists work with experimentalists more than ever before: In one example, theorists teamed […]
Who’s behind Quillette besides the “intellectual dark web”?
| November 23, 2018 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Media |
Quillette is one of the publications to which we sometimes direct your attention. It publishes figures who, in many cases, shouldn’t be particularly controversial but are. Along comes Politico to oblige us with an explanation: An Australian atheist feminist and psychology dropout, Claire Lehmann, founded it because she realized that magazines are more fun when […]
There will be cyborgs on Mars! says well-known astronomer
| November 15, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
From Sir Martin Rees at NBC: AI apocalypse is certainly in the air. Elon Musk, Henry Kissinger, and the late Stephen Hawking have all predicted an AI doomsday. Industry professionals’ doubt and disparagement don’t seem to register with the media in the same way. Rees, who is former president of the Royal Society, goes further, […]
Astonishing! A pop science article on fine-tuning that isn’t just plain stupid
| November 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse, Science |
Get a load of this: More recently, scientists have pointed out that if one tweaks many of the dimensionless physical constants — numbers like pi that are independent of units and simply exist as fundamental ideas — none of the cosmos we see would exist. One of these numbers is omega, the density parameter, which […]
But why do people believe in Discover Magazine?
| October 21, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Media, Religion |
Presumably, a fix of Darwinism goes down well in a complex world: Discover magazine tells readers why people believe in God. It’s simple: Evolution fooled us! But in fact the article is a perfect case study in how a sweeping story of “evolution” gets credit for just about anything. … That’s the story, says Alex. […]
ID-related posts deleted from friendly Facebook pages as spam
| October 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Media |
I (O’Leary for News) just discovered this fact because, acting on a tip, I was trying to find out whether mine was one of the millions of recently hacked accounts. I haven’t found that out yet but here is a list of posts Facebook removed from various groups’ Facebook pages as spam: Sociologist Steve Fuller: How […]
Another pop science great, the 100-calorie snack guy, fizzles
| September 29, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
Behaviorist Brian Wansink whose “bottomless bowl” theory of why people eat too much – and other creative but problematic ideas hatched at Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab has fallen from grace: His lab informed food companies implementing the 100-calorie snack packs you see in stores, for example, under the idea that these smaller portions would […]
Academic labels media reports calling Homo erectus lazy as “moronic”
| August 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Media |
Recently, we reported on one of those Darwinian morality tales, according to which homo erectus died out because he was lazy, compared to the rest of us. Ann Gauger, pointed out that the broader picture (timelines, for example) does not suggest that Homo erectus was lazy. And now we learn, “The inference that laziness typifies […]
ID vs the shadow-censoring (“shadow-banning”) digital empires, 2
ID is a proposition that, first, it is reasonable to inquire scientifically as to whether certain features of the world of life and/or the physical cosmos can or do show observable signs of design. To which, the answer has long since been given, e.g. by the well known OoL researcher Orgel in a significant 1973 […]
Fake news on the ID controversy still includes babies with tails
| August 23, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism |
Last year, David Klinghoffer offered some thoughts on fake news about controversies in evolution in popular media that bear repeating: The supposedly objective investigative news site ProPublica hit all of them — codes, creationism, Kitzmiller v. Dover — in a recent article, going after then-Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos, who had mentioned “critical thinking” in […]
YouTube warns us against questioning consensus science
| August 20, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
Further to kairosfocus’s thoughts yesterday on the digital empire suppressing the free flow of ideas: Buzzfeed reported August 7 that “YouTube Is Fighting Back Against Climate Misinformation.” As of July 9, “YouTube is now adding fact checks to videos that question climate change … as a part of its ongoing effort to combat the rampant […]
Darwinian conniptions over domestic violence
| August 10, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Media |
New Scientist, where it is known that all things come of evolution and we make nothing ourselves, does not know whether we “evolved” domestic violence: Why is domestic violence so horrifyingly common around the world? According to a study out today, men who are violent towards their partners have more children in societies without birth […]
Climate change: Significantly limiting the right to be considered a “skeptic”
| August 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Climate change, Culture, Global Warming, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
As opposed to a denier: I propose a basic test to determine who has earned the benefit of the doubt on whether to be labelled a denier or not. Does the person have an academic or professional background in atmospheric science or climatology? If the answer is yes, then they earn the benefit of the […]
Why evolution is more certain than gravity
| August 6, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Media, science education |
From Sarah Chaffee and Granville Sewell at The Spectator: Whether the standard neo-Darwinian mechanism fully explains the origins of biological novelties is a question that scientists themselves increasingly contest. Yet for the media, evolution is the holy Kaaba of science. Resistance verging on hysteria greets attempts to allow teachers to introduce mainstream controversies found in […]
At the New York Times: Defending the failures of social science as “science”
| August 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Peer review, Psychology, Science |
Even while prominent people in that field are coming to terms with the problem. From a New York Times science writer: It is one thing to frisk the studies appearing almost daily in journals that form the current back-and-forth of behavior research. It is somewhat different to call out experiments that became classics — and […]
“Neil deGrasse Tyson” debuts at the Babylon Bee in an op-ed
| July 4, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Media, Naturalism, science education |
From “Tyson” at the Bee: There are a lot of things we can learn from science. Did you know that the earth is round? It is round, and it is not flat. A lot of religions think the world is flat, but they are wrong. It is round. I know this because I am a […]
Science writer: New York Times is cool with pseudoscience
| June 18, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science |
From Alex Berezow at American Council for Science and Health: Scientists have a common saying about models: “Garbage in, garbage out.” That means if you put bad data into a model, you can fully expect for the model to spit out bad conclusions. The same is true for organizations. If a newspaper hires improperly educated, […]
