Tag: Robert J. Marks
Free Webinar, May 16: Compliant or Critical? Scientific Authority in the Age of COVID-19
“Follow the science!” we’re told. “Listen to the scientists!” Should we submit to such calls, or insist on thinking for ourselves?
Marks, Bringsjord: Confound Your Atheist Friends with Gödel’s “God Theorem”
You didn’t know that Gödel was a theist and that a proof of God’s existence was discovered among his papers when he died? Well here it is.
From Pfizer, Scientism and Self-Congratulation
Amidst a controversial national lockdown, economic ruin, and mounting intelligence evidence pointing to an origin in a Chinese lab, the coronavirus has reminded us of a number of things.
“Follow the Science”? Free Webinar, May 16, on Scientism and Society
In discussions of the virus, you probably have noticed the prominent use of strangely religious-sounding pleas — “Follow the science!” “Listen to the scientists!”
Robert J. Marks: Coronavirus and the “Primacy of Information”
This is the kind of insight that halts you in your tracks: “Human biology is so finely tuned that less than a kilobyte of information can stop the world.”