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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.
Joe Lieberman/David Klinghoffer Collaboration on the Sabbath Out Today
Senator Lieberman puts it this way: “The Sabbath is our opportunity to reflect on the way God’s creative purpose and design are reflected in the world around us.”
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.”
On Washington Post “On Faith” Page, Jay Richards Sets Evolution “Researcher” Straight
Gregory Paul chides conservatives for doubting Darwin even as they supposedly push what Paul caricatures as an Ayn Randian “Social Darwinist” capitalism.
Butterfly Wings Become Design Templates
No insect has the capacity to plan out its photonic crystals, wings, antennae, compound eyes or other elaborate structures. Much less so does natural selection.