Science
Religious Nones: The bigger picture shows increasing polarization
Falsifiability is overrated, some cosmologists say
The key to falsifiability of not evidence but observability
The day Stephen Hawking undercut the multiverse
Sabine Hossenfelder on the flight from falsifiability
Kirk Durston: What do we do when Darwinism looks less like science all the time?
Do science hero stories stand in the way of progress?
Jonathan Bartlett and the war on Occam’s Razor
A biophysicist looks at the limits of what science can tell us
From The Poached Egg: How Darwinism dumbs us down
New England Journal of Medicine, seeking new editor, urged to get woke
Was Thomas Kuhn not so “evil” after all?
Researchers: Microbes “jeopardize” neo-Darwinism (and Jon Bartlett’s response)
Still no space aliens? That’s because they are keeping us in a zoo!
Some say it’s time to consider the zoo hypothesis: “They can see us but we can’t see them. The idea revisits a theory proposed in 1973 by radio astronomer John Ball: Ball went further, proposing that we may live in a metaphorical zoo — a kind of cosmic Eden. The aliens of the galaxy have somehow arranged things so that our planet is shielded from them by one-way bars: They can observe us, but we can’t observe them. One nice thing about this conjecture is that it offers a solution to a long-standing puzzle known as Fermi’s Paradox. Broached nearly 70 years ago by physicist Enrico Fermi, it rests on the fact that the universe is very old. Consequently, if Read More ›