Tag: Harvard University
Truth and Trust in Large Language Models
How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we’ll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth.
Meet the Materialist Magicians
As our first case study, let’s look at Gary Nolan. Nolan is a distinguished immunologist at Stanford who believes that aliens are visiting Earth.
James Tour Offers Three-Year Challenge to Lee Cronin to Demonstrate Legitimacy of Assembly Theory
After Tour publicly quoted Cronin’s assessment of the field, Cronin responded by claiming he was speaking “tongue-in-cheek.”
Healthy Debate? No Thanks, Says National Association of Biology Teachers
One way mainstream science seeks to stifle opposition is by simply refusing to discuss or debate opposing views.
War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice.