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Archive: Fall Colors, Goby Fish, Virus Motor, Planets, Hiking, St Luke, More

...in the Journal of Experimental Psychology performed experiments in which, after thousands of tries, baboons were able to associate like things with rewards. Big deal. I had a horse once...

Beware of Mindfulness

...health problems worse (The Conversation, 19 July 2024). Miguel Farias is an associate professor of clinical psychology at Coventry University near London, UK. There has been a surge of interest...

Evolutionary Psychology Refutes Itself

...of us will ever be. Peter W. Halligan is an honorary professor of neuropsychology at Cardiff University. David A. Oakley is an emeritus professor of psychology at University College London...

How to Be a Sapiens, Not Just a Homo

...2024, The Conversation). Darwin Party psychology guru Jose Yong says we hominids are in a bind. Our brains didn’t evolve to be changing so quickly. Notice how he compares us...

Archive: Ape Archaeology, Cat Psychology, Old DNA, and a Bridge

...what it wants, claims Nicholas Nicastro, a graduate student in evolutionary psychology at Cornell University. The BBC News reports that Nicastro played 100 different recorded cat calls to a group...

Archive: Wood, Gratitude, and Space Aliens

These stories from 2003 are still fun to read after 21 years. Note: some links may no longer work. How a Plant Would Evolve Wood if It Could 03/25/2003 Lignin...

Is Materialism Starting to Crack?

Some papers in journals offer hope that materialist assumptions are weakening   Time to Free Will Will has been in jail for a long time. He’s there for philosophical crimes,...

Scientism Moves into Speculative Fantasyland

Abandoning rigor, the Big Science Cartel and its promoters in the media turn goofy   Gone are the days when the founders of science emphasized rigorous observation and explanation based...

Darwinian Anthropology Is Inherently Elitist

...MSc Student Chirag Chittar. The study was part of an elaborate longitudinal study spanning 2 years and has now been published in the scientific journal, Frontiers in Psychology. These women,...

Archive: Material Girls (and Boys) in a Material World Are Not Happy Campers

...“Buyer Beware: Some psychologists see danger in excessive materialism.” 2Science News Week of Sept. 6, 2003 (164:10): Bruce Bower, “Flag raised for kids’ mental health.” Psychology is a useless science....

Secular Psychology Defrauded the World

...these experiments have now been contested and even discredited by other researchers. The classic experiments were staples in psychology textbooks, told and retold by psychology professors. One alleged to show...

Semantic Inflation Can Create False Trends

...a pandemic of depression! Aaagh! Not to worry. The four psychologists looked at the records and found evidence of concept creep. They searched through 133 million words from psychology papers...

Did God Really Create Us Male and Female?

A peer-reviewed study published in a leading scientific journal finds transgender transitioning causes far more harm than benefit by Jerry Bergman, PhD Every society for the last 6,000 years has...

More Proof that the Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Fake

...of the “replication crisis” in psychology. Now, a mathematician from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, shows that it is bad mathematics, too. Dunning and Kruger were the clueless ones. Debunking...

Social Scientists Ashamed but Still Ask for Trust

...know I was bad and let you down, but I’ll do better from now on.’ Social science incorporates sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Most in secular academia who practice these ‘sciences’...
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