Tag: John Horgan
For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science
They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit.
John Horgan on the Madness of “Scientific Omniscience”
“As for life, Dawkins’s claim that it is no longer a mystery is absurd. We still don’t have a clue how life began.”
Science for Insight or Science for Power?
What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of “knowledge as power” in the computer age.
Paul Nelson Diagnoses the Decline of “Groundbreaking Science”
Science writer John Horgan posits that we have already made most of the big breakthroughs there are to make.
Is the End of Science Near?
A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings.