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New York Times reviewer exhibits why theory trumps evidence in physics today
Insiders think that claimed future NASA goals are just fake Wild West storefronts
Cosmology: Superstring theorists now “fairly discouraged,” soon to be “enormously depressed.”
Says skeptical mathematician Peter Woit, after hearing Talks at the KITP (Not EvenWrong, August 12, 2011). The multiverse that makes all nonsense true just ain’t out there. While it’s true that SUSY was in trouble pre-LHC, there’s psychologically a big difference between indirect effects not showing up, and directly looking for something and finding it’s just not there. The discussion with the audience is quite interesting, with some audience members a lot more worried about SUSY. One of them reminded people that SUSY is supposed to solve naturality problems, so relatively light squarks were expected, but now “those models are being screwed.” Someone else (Lisa Randall, I think) reacted to Reece’s mentioning R-parity violating models as one way to evade Read More ›
Extinction: Beware “endangered species” listing scams
“Skeptics” are one-trick ponies #456
Researchers discover supergene that controls a butterfly’s mimicry patterns
Human evolution: Before the “ape man” there was the “wild child”
Better educated Americans don’t drop religion – they water it down
Religious people happier than others in hard times, researchers say
Rabbi offers reasonable argument for existence of soul
Secularism: Yes, that IS all there is
Prominent Brit atheist Polly Toynbee pulls out of debate with apologist William Lane Craig
The Darwin lobby has been forced to take a part time job?
Ian Binns, a science education researcher at Louisiana StateUniversity, told Science that a law such as Louisiana’s, which misdescribes established scientific theories such as evolution as controversial, “tells our students and teachers that there are problems that there aren’t” and distort their understanding of the nature of science;
NCSE’s Joshua Rosenau added, “Science is not about providing balance to every viewpoint that’s out there.” NCSE is now monitoring controversies over the teaching of climate change as well as controversies over the teaching of evolution, but the scope of the problem is as yet unclear; as Rosenau explained, “Just like with evolution, it’s difficult to know what a given teacher in a given classroom is teaching.” Read More ›
Octopus is smarter n’ you, when it comes to hiding
And it’s all just an accident, remember: