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Bible and Theology

God Delusion, or Atheist Delusion?
November 29, 2020
...the “replication crisis” that still plagues it (6 Oct 2019), and the history of fraud and misconduct? The authors refer favorably to the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) “Diagnostic and Statistical...
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Media

Big Science Dodging Its Own Racism
September 2, 2020
...in the universe of biases, he proceeds to justify psychology, one of the worst branches of science of all, guilty of the “reproducibility crisis” in science and shamed often even...
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Philosophy of Science

Fallen, Fallen Is Big Science the Great
August 29, 2020
...are many similar cases in addition to the bad examples he discusses. Science is suffering from a replication crisis. Too many landmark studies can’t be repeated in independent labs, a...
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Bible and Theology

Can Unbelievers Really Be Happy?
May 24, 2020
...unbelievers find solace in life in times of crisis. In her piece at The Conversation, she presents what she found. Her opening sentences, though, suggest a bias toward asserting that...
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Mind and Brain

Brain Science Needs a Rethink
May 18, 2020
Have the sciences of the mind, from psychology to neuroscience, really grasped what’s going on inside our skulls? Neuroscience needs some new ideas (Nature, book review). Matthew Cobb has a...
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Philosophy of Science

You Can Trust Science! (to Reverse Itself)
January 28, 2020
...science.” He knows that psychology and social science have lost credibility due to the “reproducibility crisis,” but he whimpers that climate scientists don’t deserve to have their reputations tarnished by...
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Politics and Ethics

Solving a Global Cultural Crisis Without Moral Authority
November 24, 2019
...academies and the World Health Organization on whom they rely to “do something” about this crisis. On what basis are they going to tell other scientists what they must do?...
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Bible and Theology

Psychologist, Fix Your Own Problems
October 6, 2019
...study will ever be replicated (New Scientist). Acknowledging that a replication crisis still plagues psychological research publications, New Scientist proposes a simple solution: Common Sense! The “wisdom of the crowds”...
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Philosophy of Science

Evolutionary Models Are Unreliable
August 3, 2019
Evolutionists find that models and assumptions in which they placed their trust are unreliable and unscientific. Several articles and papers this week show that models of evolutionary theory are worthless...
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Media

Whose News Is Fake News?
August 2, 2019
...with scandals and misconduct, often not caught. At the same time, most published papers are irreproducible (the “replication crisis”). Cosmologists claim that nothing banged and became everything. Folks understandably think...
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Philosophy of Science

How Science Could Destroy Itself
June 10, 2019
...may argue that fake science could never succeed for long, because science is self-checking and reproducible. But as many journals have worried, there is a “reproducibility crisis” going on, and...
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Philosophy of Science

Science Under the Microscope Looks Infected
May 18, 2019
...finds scientific reproducibility does not equate to scientific truth (Phys.org). What a shock! A key rationale for the superiority of scientific knowledge has been reproducibility. As we have reported for...
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Philosophy of Science

Science Is Nothing Without Integrity, cont.
November 30, 2018
This entry continues yesterday’s news about scientific integrity. Replication Crisis Replication failures in psychology not due to differences in study populations (Nature). Psychologists cannot just blame their replication failures on...
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Media

Big Science Failing Integrity Test
November 29, 2018
...about reproducibility than academia is, Nature says this week. Notice how academic scientists engage in “questionable practices.” Despite the advent of important new therapeutics, the number of innovative treatments reaching...
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Media

Science Fails Its Ideals
August 30, 2018
...High-profile journals put to reproducibility test (Nature). Did you know two out of five published research results are not reproducible? The “reproducibility crisis” that embarrassed Big Science in recent years...
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