Tag: hubris
Humor, Humility, and a Treasured Friend and Colleague: Sternberg Remembers Jonathan Wells
Wells would occasionally bring up lessons he had learned about hubris from a famous tragic play by German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Far from Chastened by Reality, Scientific Authoritarians Are Doubling Down
Ethan Siegel, an astrophysicist and award-winning science writer, advocates for criminally and civilly punishing violators of the “scientific consensus.”
In the Scientific Enterprise, the Wildness of Aslan Counsels Humility
Science has made many of its grandest leaps in the face of a mainstream of scientists stubbornly defending a dominant but misguided paradigm.
How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe
Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause.
Making Predictions Against Design
From back when I was a sophomore taking biochemistry, one particular event stands out in my memory, perhaps because it was such an odd thing.