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progressivism

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 10, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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When progressivism hit the science journals…

Denyse O'Leary
September 10, 2022
Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Wesley J. Smith: Science isn’t about politics, opinion polls, or subjective opinions. It is supposed to be about adducing facts about the natural world and applying them. Whether to permit, outlaw, or regulate abortion isn’t a question that science can answer. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 15, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Eugenics: The hidden history of the progressive movement

Denyse O'Leary
July 15, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Education, Intelligent Design, Racism
Cargill: Judging by a representative sample of textbooks, America’s high-school students get little exposure to the history of eugenics and scientific racism. One reason might be that the relationship of these movements to Progressivism is too close for comfort. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 16, 2020
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Biology, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Jerry Coyne takes a stand: Sex is binary

Denyse O'Leary
February 16, 2020
Biology, Culture, Intelligent Design
Jerry may well be brought down by this. Increasingly, “wokeness” rather than correct factual description, will confer academic esteem in science—thanks principally due to the progressivism (that Jerry has always supported) taking hold. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 12, 2018
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology, Science
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Why do we think “social psychology” is science anyway?

Denyse O'Leary
September 12, 2018
Culture, Intelligent Design, Peer review, Psychology, Science

More clutter building up in the inbox about the unreproducible results from social sciences: From ScienceDaily: Today, in Nature Human Behavior, a collaborative team of five laboratories published the results of 21 high-powered replications of social science experiments originally published in Science and Nature, two of the most prestigious journals in science. They failed to replicate the results of more than a third of the studies and turned up significantly weaker evidence for the remainder compared to the original studies. Paper. (open access) – Colin F. Camerer, Anna Dreber, Felix Holzmeister, Teck-Hua Ho, Jürgen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Gideon Nave, Brian A. Nosek, Thomas Pfeiffer, Adam Altmejd, Nick Buttrick, Taizan Chan, Yiling Chen, Eskil Forsell, Anup Gampa, Emma Heikensten, Lily Read More ›