Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Thanks for the Memory
Protein chemist Doug Axe responds in characteristically incisive fashion to a typical silly instance of science reporting.
Defense Department-Funded Study Finds that Dogs Relish Praise and Hot Dogs
This is indeed cutting-edge research. Given that, did you wonder if they’d bring evolution into it? Of course they do.
How Is Purpose Related to Teleology in Nature?
Materialist philosopher Joseph Carter denies the existence of teleology in nature, but he is mistaken.
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic? Controversy Over the P-value Value
There is much to agree with in Yale University clinical neurologist Steven Novella’s recent article on the p-value.
Philosopher in NY Times: The Universe Has No Purpose, But We Can Pretend…
As I noted yesterday, Joseph Carter wrote a fatuous essay in which he denies purpose in the universe and does an amusing dance around the implications that follow.