The science writers’ behavior around the origin of COVID raises the question: About what other, less immediate but more profound topics, are these professional non-skeptics obfuscating things?
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/science-journalists-are-paid-not-to-be-skeptical/
Woke has its fans but it takes no prisoners. Perhaps we will get rigorous science in dribs and drabs now.
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/the-decay-of-science-mags-is-not-going-unnoticed/
Thought from an old hack: When mainstream media really mattered — say in the 1970s — they told us things it would have been difficult for us to find out otherwise. Those times are gone. Anyon...
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/trust-in-news-media-plummets-further/
Trust in science will deteriorate if, like many journalists today, scientists come to see objectivity as worth sacrificing in order to achieve other goals.
Wade: "The lab at Wuhan, where researchers were manipulating Covid-type viruses, received funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Could Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci, the NIH’s...
Wesley J. Smith: Science isn’t about politics, opinion polls, or subjective opinions. It is supposed to be about adducing facts about the natural world and applying them. Whether to permit, out...
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/when-progressivism-hit-the-science-journals/
Generally, American courts have pointedly — and very advisedly — rejected any reliance on Wikipedia as a source of facts in the courtroom.
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/do-courts-or-smart-people-trust-wikipedia/
Open season on Jesse Singal for noticing? Or … alternatively … how about this, Little Rays of Sunshine — University of Washington Chapter: Hereafter, we will reasonably assume that anything...
I was thinking recently, about how many audiobooks are consumed by people these days. I would guess that the main reason behind this consumption is convenience. Many people just don’t have the ...
https://uncommondescent.com/education/the-intelligent-design-audiopaper-project/
Matt Ridley: We don’t say this virus definitely jumped out of a laboratory, but we do say that if there is one city in the world where a laboratory leak of a novel SARS-like virus from bats wou...
At The Scientist, we are informed, “Scientists Predict “Brain Drain” From States That Ban Abortion: Following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, numerous researchers have announced plans to ei...
Science writers, and their readers, often seek a certainty from science that it can’t really provide. They graft it in — so, of COURSE, they find it.
Researchers: Notably, the researchers also found that a majority of people rely on credible sources of information, with two-thirds completely avoiding unreliable news sites.
If the science journalists want to run a test: Just try claiming that the universe shows evidence of design. And defend yourselves against the trolls. Otherwise, cry the rest of us a river.
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/science-writers-complain-about-online-harassment/
Breitbart, as I just saw: After a two-week battle against opposition from the platform’s board members, self-declared free speech absolutist Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and currently...
https://uncommondescent.com/culture/breaking-twitter-accepts-musks-share-offer-buyout-plan/