Tag: scientific method
The Most Valuable Aspect of Avi Loeb’s Intelligent Design Case
The most valuable aspect of his case is the stimulus it provides to the question, “If non-human intelligences exist, how would we detect them?”
Ethicist Protests Politicized Science — Alas, That Horse Left the Barn Long Ago
It is all about the costs of getting on the wrong side of the power structure. To say that this “chills” debate about scientific issues is an understatement.
How to Restore Science’s Lost Luster
More and more, the scientific establishment looks like a special interest group with biases of their own.
A Scientific Method for Design Detection
My first exposure to intelligent design detection in science took place during a summer job with National Defence Research in 1978 as an engineering student.
Behe Up Against the Sociology of Science
You could predict how the review would be written — not only that it would be negative but the precise ways in which it would also be spurious.