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‘Hominids’ Were Gender Binary

June 15, 2019

Political activists will have more trouble arguing for gender fluidity, now that binary sex roles go way back. Nobody ever heard of gender fluidity before LGBT activists decided it was possible to divorce gender from biological sex. Now that scientists at the University of Seville have found evidence of “gender inequality” as far back as […]

Philosophy of Science

What Is Scientifically Significant?

March 23, 2019

A common measure in scientific papers is under fire, possibly invalidating thousands of research papers.

Mind and Brain

Frontal Lobotomies: a Darwinian Mental Health Holocaust

January 22, 2019

The belief that human brains needed surgery to cut off animal behaviors grew out of Darwinism. It's been called a mental health holocaust.

Genetics

Scientists Must Avoid the Slippery Slope of Designer Babies

January 15, 2019

Dr Jerry Bergman, author of books on the Holocaust, is not the only scientist seeing danger by tweaking the human genome.

Politics and Ethics

How to Scientifically Justify Horror

December 17, 2018

A leading American science journal whimpers over loss of access to body parts of murdered humans.

Media

Political Bias in Science Media, cont.

December 8, 2018

This entry continues listed examples of political bias in science, academia and secular media.

Philosophy of Science

Science Is Nothing Without Integrity, cont.

November 30, 2018

This entry continues yesterday's news about scientific integrity.

Cell Biology

Stem Cells Back in the News with New Hopes and Discoveries

November 13, 2018

Stem cells were all the rage ten years ago, but news stories these days are less common. What's new?

Genetics

Determine to Oppose Determinism

October 28, 2018

Even secularists have trouble with books that promote the idea that we are what our genes make us.

Politics and Ethics

Science’s Got Troubles

October 27, 2018

Numerous news articles point to moral shortcomings in Big Science that threaten public trust. The US Constitution was a great idea. But John Adams once said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” (US Archives). Similarly, the “Scientific Method,” as it […]

Media

Who Owns Science, Anyway?

September 5, 2018

Journal editors are freaking out over the rise of Open Science initiatives, worried their reign over the perception of science is doomed.

Darwin and Evolution

Blunders Without Number: The Fraud Problems and Darwinism

July 5, 2018

Blunders without Number: The Fraud Problems and Darwinism One of the most respected medical journals in the world, New England Journal of Medicine, recently “retracted and republished a landmark study on the Mediterranean diet, and issued an unprecedented five other corrections after an obscure report last year scrutinized thousands of articles in eight journals over […]

Education

When Learning, Don’t Neglect the Religion

April 22, 2018

Scientists could do themselves a favor by getting off the materialist merry-go-round and contemplating their Creator's purpose for their lives.

Education

Scientists Not Always Trained to Be Critical Thinkers

February 19, 2018

A trainer of graduate students at a prestigious university wants to put the Ph back in PhD. Can scientists be good at detail work but dumb at logic? Gundula Bosch thinks so. She directs the R3 Graduate Science Initiative at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. In Nature, she says she’s […]