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Denyse O'Leary
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March 2, 2023
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News about the lab leak leaking out – and why it matters to ID

News
March 2, 2023
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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The point isn’t just that the debunkers are proven wrong in principle  (because there was good reason for concern) but that there was never any  reason to give them much credibility in the first place - except that they claimed to represent “science.” A few more blows like this - and they would be just the ones to administer them - and trust in science among the smarter segments of the public will not easily recover. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 27, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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More on the Lab Leak theory vindicated… receipts pile in…

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February 27, 2023
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Matt Ridley: To summarise. A bat coronavirus pandemic began in the city with the biggest bat coronavirus lab in the world, a long way from where those viruses are found naturally. It was caused by the first and so-far only sarbecovirus with a furin cleavage site in it, a feature that had been inserted into other coronaviruses nearby, and that had been planned to be inserted into a sarbecovirus for the first time. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 24, 2023
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Cosmology
Philosophy
Science
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Massive early galaxies defy “prior understanding of the universe”

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February 24, 2023
Cosmology, Philosophy, Science
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Tip: If all you want is to have your prior beliefs about the universe confirmed, don’t whack a huge telescope into space and code it to send back real-life actual data. Pound lecterns on behalf of manipulated interpretations of prior data instead. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 15, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Science
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Paul Davies at Closer to Truth: Do ultimate questions evolve?

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February 15, 2023
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Note: If the questions are really ultimate questions, they can’t evolve. That’s what “ultimate” means: It’s the last one. But perhaps Davies and various readers have a different view. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 13, 2023
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Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
Science
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Rob Sheldon responds to Sabine Hossenfelder’s loss of faith in science

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February 13, 2023
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics, Science
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Sabine says 40 years of lack of progress, with 40 years of wrong predictions is not normal, and we should not normalize it. (The field is losing graduate students, which means the end is nigh.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 12, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Medicine
Philosophy
Science
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Trust the Science! chronicles: The origin of COVID and Wuhan

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February 12, 2023
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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Wade: Virologists like Daszak had much at stake in the assigning of blame for the pandemic. For 20 years, mostly beneath the public’s attention, they had been playing a dangerous game. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 10, 2023
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Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Physics
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At Big Think: The weirdness of quantum mechanics forces scientists to confront philosophy

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February 10, 2023
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Physics
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Marcelo Gleiser: Due to space, I will only mention one more epistemic interpretation, Quantum Bayesianism, or as it is now called, QBism. As the original name implies, QBism takes the role of an agent as central. It assumes that probabilities in quantum mechanics reflect the current state of the agent’s knowledge or beliefs about the world, as he or she makes bets about what will happen in the future. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 6, 2023
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Cell biology
DNA
Philosophy
Science
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At Nature: “Dogma-defying bacteria package DNA in unusual ways”

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February 6, 2023
Cell biology, DNA, Philosophy, Science
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Dogma? Defying dogma? "Bizarre"? These bacteria are just going about their usual business, unconscious of the dogmas some have chosen to promulgate about them. They were never obliged by any power in this world or any other to do only what the dogmatists insist they do. Read More ›