Author: David Klinghoffer
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.
What Drives Darwinian Scientists to their Fury
We have heard reports from prospective grad students in biology who are being asked during the interview process whether they have an opinion about intelligent design.
The Mystery of Bach’s Genius? Solved! It’s All in the Ink
As an explanation of musical genius, this would be bewilderingly silly. Yet it’s the basic summary of a genre of breathless news items about the origins of life on earth.