Category: Science Dogmatism
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Forgetting who you are… One experience at a time…
Researchers have revealed that infants aged 4- to 5-months already hold a primary cerebral representation of audiovisual integration of material information in their right hemisphere, and the number of types of material which can be processed by infants' brain increases with the experience of the materials. This finding may lead to understand the trajectory of…
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Psychopath AI… Psychopath humans… Old fashioned prejudice…
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have truly created a monster. A team of researchers who specialize in the darker side of artificial intelligence made news for their latest creation: “Norman”, a machine-learning bot that “sees death in whatever image it looks at”, its creators told HuffPost. Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan…
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Mutations that lead to cancer: A major argument against evolution?
A research group has discovered a novel cancer-driving mutation in the vast non-coding regions of the human cancer genome, also known as the 'dark matter' of human cancer DNA. (1) Not a surprising result. Something inherently in opposition with the basic premise of modern evolutionary theory (that mutations generate new functions which - if persisted…
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ScienceAlert, censorship, climate hysteria, scientific "consensus"...
Today the science news web site ScienceAlert issued an impressive announcement in its Facebook page: It urged its followers not to engage with "climate deniers" which it called "trolls". Instead, it told them to report those "trolls" so that they will be banned from the page if they utter any argument against climate change! (1)…
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Old philosophers, science and the poison of knowledge...
A friend recently asked: how can we seriously read philosophers from before the 18th century, now that we know of their lack of knowledge regarding the cosmos and the universe? How can we read them and draw any serious conclusions now that we know that they knew almost nothing that we currently do, based on…
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