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Gary Smith

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Denyse O'Leary
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March 1, 2022
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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At Mind Matters News: Detecting BS data: If it’s too good to be true, it probably is

Denyse O'Leary
March 1, 2022
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Business prof Gary Smith: A recent Wall Street Journal article shows a near-perfect link between inflation and money. But a link that near-perfect raises suspicions. Precise predictions of human behavior are implausible and rarely match up to the far more complicated reality. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 18, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
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That time they invented scientists as well as research papers…

Denyse O'Leary
June 18, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Science
The Googlebot soon found the papers and [fictional] Antkare was credited with 101 papers that had been cited by 101 papers, which propelled him to 21st on Google’s list of the most cited scientists of all time, behind Freud but well ahead of Einstein, and first among computer scientists. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 8, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Artificial intelligence cannot produce a Theory of Everything

Denyse O'Leary
December 8, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Gary Smith concludes, “Computers are much better than humans at curve fitting but still far worse at devising models that help us understand and predict the world.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 25, 2020
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Rob Sheldon on Darwinism and the problem of why intelligent women marry less intelligent men

Denyse O'Leary
September 25, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design
If regression toward the mean is a nearly universal tendency, how could evolution proceed via sexual selection? Outliers would tend to get reabsorbed far more often than not. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 19, 2020
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Intelligent Design
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Why “statistical significance” is corrupting science

Denyse O'Leary
September 19, 2020
Intelligent Design
Smith: When I was a young assistant professor at Yale, one of my senior colleagues, Nobel Laureate James Tobin, wryly observed that the bad old days when researchers had to do calculations by hand were actually a blessing. The effort was so great that people thought hard before calculating. They put theory before data. Today, with terabytes of data and lightning-fast computers, it is too easy to calculate first, think later. 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 ›