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COVID-19

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Denyse O'Leary
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June 18, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
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COVID 19: John Ioannidis, scourge of trashy science studies, responds to critics

Denyse O'Leary
June 18, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Science
We still urgently need a serious discussion about the role of the “science” expert, as we survey the ruins of our economy. How is that expert different from the crystal ball reader? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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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?

Denyse O'Leary
May 28, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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

Denyse O'Leary
May 14, 2020
Intelligent Design, Science
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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Denyse O'Leary
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April 26, 2020
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Information, Intelligent Design, Medicine
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Evolutionary Informatics Lab guys on COVID-19: When 900 bytes shut down the world

Denyse O'Leary
April 26, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Medicine

A great physicist warned us, information precedes matter and energy: Bit before it: The COVID-19 virus contains about as much information as a sticker in WhatsApp. Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks and Dr. Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón explore a dreadful truth: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”: Daniel Andrés Díaz-Pachón: I really think that information is more fundamental to nature than matter and energy and what we are seeing here is how this small amount of information can produce a big change. Not only in a small area; it’s the whole world that is paralyzed… There is a primacy of information, as some physicists have said in the Read More ›