Category: Science Dogmatism
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Believing in the brain...
Humans constantly experience an ever-changing stream of subjective feelings that is only interrupted during sleep and deep unconsciousness. Finnish researches show how the subjective feelings map into five major categories: positive emotions, negative emotions, cognitive functions, somatic states, and illnesses. All these feelings were imbued with strong bodily sensations. (1) In both ADHD and emotional…
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Believing in anything. As long as it is not Christian.
I recently came up with another article on how the universe could possibly have more dimensions. (1) This is not the first and certainly not the last time scientists make similar claims. The scientific community has been filled with theories claiming that there are more dimensions we cannot feel, multiple universes we cannot touch or…
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Eugenics works! So why not use it? A hard problem begging for a simple answer...
In a recent online discussion where the idea of modern eugenics was brought up, many people were against it. Since eugenics bring up correlations with the Nazis it is easy for most people to discard such ideas as wrong or unethical. It is obvious that applying eugenics is wrong. But all obvious things are very…
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Dark data. Old fossils. Life long gone.
Researchers estimate that only 3 to 4 percent of recorded fossil locations from across the globe are currently accounted for in published scientific literature. Quantifying 'dark data' in fossil collections is a call to arms; heralds a digital revolution. (1) Once upon life was everywhere. Especially because we did not seek it. Now we started…
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Learning the foundations…
Contrary to widely-held opinion, taking high school calculus isn't necessary for success later in college calculus - what's more important is mastering the prerequisites, algebra, geometry, and trigonometry - that lead to calculus. That's according to a study of more than 6,000 college freshmen at 133 colleges. (1) Great line of reasoning. Except that we…
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