Category: Science
Paper Digest: What Mutation Accumulation Tells Us About Evolution
Though more than a decade old, this work caught my attention for its possible relevance to our current experiences with COVID-19.
As Trust in Science Sinks, Prestigious Journal Decides to Showcase Yet Another Politicized Scientist
The world’s most prestigious science journal just published an ex-astronomer’s remarkable screed.
Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution
Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations?
Correcting a Cartoon Version of Alfred Russel Wallace
Was Darwin a Nazi? Of course not. But did his ideas form a causal nexus via Galton to ideas that would be integrated into Nazi policy? Yes.
Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science
The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused.