Author: David Klinghoffer
How to Become a Whale
Certain Darwinian explanations remind me of a favorite Monthy Python skit.
“Under the Banyan Tree Nothing Grows”
Big Science devours billions of dollars a year while the productions of this vast government industry seem startlingly and increasingly barren of significance.
A Source of Scientific Bias: The Fear of Boring People
Scientists are in a sense just like journalists. We — I speak for the latter — do not like to report that we do not know why or how something happened.
When a Consensus — on Science or Anything — Masks “Groupthink”
“Developed by the psychologist Irving Janis in the early 1970s, the groupthink theory describes how a tight-knit, smart and well-informed group can suppress dissent and make disastrous decisions because of the pressure to agree.”
“Dominionist” Darwinism
Our friend and colleague Nancy Pearcy has a good piece in Human Events taking off from a New Yorker attack piece on Michele Bachmann.