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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 2, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Asked at Areo Magazine: Did the Catholic Church give birth to science?

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June 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science
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The Church recovered the classical academy—Plato and Aristotle and so forth. As for unfettered debate, under university atheism, it is becoming nearly extinct in many faculties, due to disbelief in the reality of the mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 28, 2020
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Culture
Intelligent Design
Science
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Michael Egnor asks re COVID-19: How much of the science knowledge is fake?

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May 28, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Um, yes. A lot of people who want, for whatever reason, to survive and thrive, are going to have a lot of questions hereafter about the thousand shrieking heads of "consensus science."Before, it wasn't about anything that mattered so much to us. But, surveying the ruins now... Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 14, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Science
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COVID-19 and Vitamin D – data vs noise in science

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May 14, 2020
Intelligent Design, Science
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Statistics analyst Gary Smith: Even if COVID-19 deaths are randomly distributed among the population (and they surely aren’t), data mining will, more likely than not, discover a geographic cluster of victims... (Lots of things can start to appear meaningful.) Read More ›
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May 9, 2020
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Intelligent Design
Psychology
Science
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Researchers: Many published psych studies lack validity

Denyse OLeary
May 9, 2020
Intelligent Design, Psychology, Science
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ScienceDaily: Chester and Lasko investigated 348 psychological manipulations included in peer-reviewed studies. They found that roughly 42% of the experiments were paired with no validity evidence, and that the remaining psychological manipulations were validated in ways that were extremely limited. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 8, 2020
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Climate change
Intelligent Design
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Sabine Hossenfelder says predictions are overrated; Rob Sheldon responds

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May 8, 2020
Climate change, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Sheldon: … ironically, most of Sabine's blogs are about the poor predictive power in particle theory, but in this blog she feels she has to reverse herself to defend the good name of global warming. My advice to her is to stick with what she has first-hand knowledge of, because 2nd-hand knowledge always suffers from authoritarian bias. Read More ›