Tag: Stanford University
Animals Using Healing Plants? That’s Old News
Recently, an orangutan who successfully treated a wound by applying chewed leaves to it touched off a worldwide media event.
Leveraging the Design Inference for Effectively Falsifying Data
The academy raises generation after generation of inept data falsifiers who embrace the foolish naiveté that their shenanigans are immune to discovery.
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.
Aliens in the Garbage
Some people — whether they would put it in so many words or not — believe that certain types of answers are simply off-limits in a scientific inquiry.