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Steven Novella

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Denyse O'Leary
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June 28, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism
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At Mind Matters News: What’s hot and what’s not in Darwinblogs

Denyse O'Leary
June 28, 2022
Culture, Darwinism
Casey Luskin: We’ve seen a decline in the amount of high quality science writing from blogs like Panda’s Thumb. Some old voices in the Darwin blogosphere have diminished and some new ones have popped up. Jerry Coyne certainly is one of the ones that has really popped up on his very popular blog. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 21, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
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At The Ness: Science is not Just Philosophy

Denyse O'Leary
September 21, 2021
Intelligent Design, Medicine, Philosophy, Science
Wait. If atheist neurologist blogger Steven Novella is right, the science presenters in media must be speaking a different language from the rest of us. The impression that he says they don’t convey (“insight into the ultimate nature of reality”), they in fact do — by a variety of means. That’s okay, of course, until the whipped cream hits the fan. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 22, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Media, Science
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Why is science reporting so bad?

Denyse O'Leary
June 22, 2021
Intelligent Design, Media, Science
Novella's points are well taken. But, if anything, media tend to be too deferential to science sources and are most likely to just follow their lead, in time for the 6:00 am deadline. If you are in media, you must publish something, and soon. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Michael Egnor on why we don’t live in a multiverse

Denyse O'Leary
February 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Egnor: The problem is, to make their claim credible, [Novella and Goff] must show that there actually are localities in the universe in which the laws of physics differ in a way that would make fine tuning likely by chance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 3, 2020
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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Michael Egnor asks: Is Joe Blow really anti-intellectual?

Denyse O'Leary
March 3, 2020
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
“Joe has been told since the 1980s that the world is going to end due to global warming. It sounds like those crazy guys with the placards who say the world is gonna end tomorrow. The earth’s sell-by-date keeps getting pushed forward.” One reason for many recent political upheavals in a variety of jurisdictions is that Joe has begun to wonder if he’s really the one with the problem. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 6, 2018
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Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, science education
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Evolution is “under attack” again — in a neuroscientist’s imagination

Denyse O'Leary
October 6, 2018
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, science education

Dust this off, spruce it up and put it in a museum of popular culture: Getting back to evolution, it is amazing that 150 years after the scientific theory was proposed and generally accepted by the scientific community, it is still controversial in many segments of the public. In the US we have made some modest gains, but belief in pure creationism remains high at 38%, with a further 38% believing that life evolved but with God’s help, and only 19% accepting pure evolution. This puts the US near the bottom, only above Turkey. So recent reports of the teaching of evolution being opposed in Turkey is not surprising. It is more so in Israel, as those of Jewish faith Read More ›