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Rob Sheldon

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Denyse O'Leary
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January 4, 2021
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Mathematics, Media, Science
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Rob Sheldon responds to News’s recent Salvo article, “War on Math”

Denyse O'Leary
January 4, 2021
Mathematics, Media, Science
Sheldon: Talking to a retired St Louis public high school math teacher, the battle was first enjoined 30 years ago over Geometry--eliminating it from the curriculum. Why? Because it was the only course that taught logic, he said. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 30, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Dark matter and dark energy as 21st century Ptolemaic epicycles? – Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Why can’t they find dark matter, despite much search? Sheldon: The old joke is that a man is looking under a lamppost one night. The policeman asks what he is doing. "Looking for my keys" he replies. "Did you lose them here?" "No, but the light is better over here." (And the funding is better for some research than for others.) Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 30, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Did the black hole paradox really come to an end? Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

Denyse O'Leary
October 30, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: Black Holes are a theoretical and empirical disaster. Given two possible assumptions to Schwarzschild’s solution of Einstein’s gravity equation, nearly everyone has taken the discontinuous, unphysical, "event-horizon" assumption leading to "Black Holes". One of the many predictions of BH, is that they cannot have magnetic fields, and they destroy anything that falls into them, converting all that matter into "Hawking radiation". What about all that data showing high density objects at the center of our galaxy and neighboring galaxies? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 26, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Pushback at StatNews against politicizing science. Rob Sheldon weighs in

Denyse O'Leary
October 26, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Sheldon: The editors of Science and Nature compromised their scientific objectivity years ago. They promoted papers that big pharma wanted, they suppressed papers that made big pharma look bad. They were complicit in the coverup of not just tobacco and sugar lobbies, but vaccines and Darwinism and global warming... So of course this produced cognitive dissonance, since it violated some of the very basic tenets of objective science. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 15, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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And now… New Scientist tells us herd immunity is “bad science”… Rob Sheldon responds

Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Rob Sheldon: We have the data to improve our models and the much-attacked Greater Barrington declaration suggests that we should, since the DATA from Sweden show that lockdowns are neither necessary nor even helpful. But this author suggests that the models are perfect, and therefore the data must be rejected in the name of science, of course. He is displaying, even in his own scientific subfield, the same TRUST in science, that we disparaged in Nature. The disease of deification begun by Darwin is far more pervasive than anyone wants to admit. You might say that herd immunity hasn't yet been reached. 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 8, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Rob Sheldon responds to Nature’s decision to go political: Are they really scientists or just political hacks?

Denyse O'Leary
October 8, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Sheldon: My best explanation is that the editors of Nature, SciAm, NEJM are themselves not research scientists, but political hacks—hired under the supposition that good relations with government funders required not science but PR. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
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
Date
September 18, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon on the latest effort to pretend that nothing is wrong in cosmology

Denyse O'Leary
September 18, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: This dashes yet another attempt to find something that the standard model could not explain. Surprisingly, this is what depresses particle theorists, who have yet to find anything new in the last 40 years, despite thousands of publications. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 16, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Rob Sheldon on Scientific American’s foray into politics, backing Joe Biden

Denyse O'Leary
September 16, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
I was a devoted SciAm fan growing up. I collected other people's old copies and had a collection going back to the 60's. Then SciAm was bought out by some big publishing firm. And my favorite column, the Amateur Scientist by Forrest M. Mims III , was cancelled because Mims was a Christian. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 12, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Rob Sheldon on origin of life as a “theoretically fertile dead end”

Denyse O'Leary
September 12, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Sheldon: What hinders the field presently is an unstated reliance on materialism and its attendant mechanism, when information is manifestly non-material. What we need to make progress in OoL are matter-free tools for manipulating information: understanding its flow, its gradients, and its concentration. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 2, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Does the answer to the origin of life lie in quantum mechanics?

Denyse O'Leary
September 2, 2020
Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Sheldon: As a way out of this [origin of life] dilemma, many physicists reach into the religion bag and pull out spooky QM-at-a-distance. But it isn't a solution, it is an admission of failure. For if they had reached a trifle deeper into the bag they would have pulled out Genesis 1. Instead, they have loosed this uncontrollable "dark matter", "dark energy", "dark QM" chaos god on the ordered universe of laws and purpose. Read More ›