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Ethan Siegel

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 7, 2020
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Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
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At Forbes: Hawking’s black hole paradox is NOT solved

Denyse O'Leary
November 7, 2020
Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
Ethan Siegel looks at the limitations: But we’re still a long way away from determining exactly where that information goes, and how it gets out of a black hole. Theorists disagree over the validity and soundness of many of the methods that are currently being employed to do these calculations, and no one has even a theoretical prediction for how this information should be encoded by an evaporating black hole, much less how to measure it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 12, 2020
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Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Physicist Rob Sheldon checks out astrophysicist Ethan Siegel for ridiculing Nobelist Roger Penrose

Denyse O'Leary
October 12, 2020
Big Bang, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: The politicization of science evidently started before Ethan's graduate schooling, as Hoyle and his post-doc Chandra Wickramasinghe tell in their biographical writings. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 7, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Ethan Siegel at Forbes on “finally” making the United States a “scientific nation”

Denyse O'Leary
October 7, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Siegel: “It is a fundamentally misinformative act to present multiple sides of a controversial issue equally when the scientific consensus overwhelmingly favors one perspective.” Actually, consensus is achieved in many ways, including some that contribute to the likelihood that the consensus will be wrong, no matter how many experts believe it. In fact, the surest way to often be wrong is to adopt the very attitude Siegel displays here. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 22, 2020
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Big Bang, Intelligent Design
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From Ethan Siegel: What if the Big Bang isn’t the beginning of the universe?

Denyse O'Leary
September 22, 2020
Big Bang, Intelligent Design
Make no mistake, the Big Bang is unpopular in many quarters and an exterminator has long been sought. Here’s the problem: The explanation for an event may be outside the event. In that case, one can’t derive an explanation from within the event. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 20, 2020
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Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
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Ethan Siegel enumerates what we might find, re life on Mars

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2020
Extraterrestrial life, Intelligent Design
Siegel: It’s the ultimate nightmare of astrobiologists: that there’s a fascinating history of life to uncover on another world, but we’ll contaminate it with our own organisms before we ever learn the true history of life on that world. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2020
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Cosmology, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At Forbes: Wolfram’s new theory “isn’t even science” yet. But wait…

Denyse O'Leary
May 17, 2020
Cosmology, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
We can tell what’s wrong with science today when we try to take Siegel’s dead-serious explanation of what he thinks a theory in science is and apply it to: Darwinian evolution theory Read More ›