Tag: The Guardian
Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?
Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.”
Trying to Disprove Free Will Shows that Materialism Doesn’t Work
The fact that nature is not predetermined in detail has been shown quite convincingly by the experimental confirmation of Bell’s theorem in quantum mechanics.
Today: Debut of New “Long Story” on Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance, with Live Chat
Doubting Darwinian theory, we’re told, is nothing less than a threat to the public health.
Lancet Hydroxychloroquine Paper Scandal Illustrates Scientific Bias, Not Only in Medicine
It’s a particularly crude example of how confirmation bias works — how else would you explain this story? — not only among lay people but among top researchers.
For Earth Day, Let’s Appreciate Our Planet’s Intelligent Design
That’s the “new path” I’d recommended, as a counter to the prevailing pessimism of our culture.