Category: Science

Seed magazine profiles the recent work from John Ioannidis, author of the groundbreaking article “Why most published research findings are false”. I’ve written about him before in several contexts and the importance of understanding this research. The counter-intuitive thing is how much his research redeems science as an enterprise and emphasizes how denialists can abuse…

PLoS has an intriguing article providing additional reasons why the thermodynamic arguments against evolution are more than silly. It’s called the maximum entropy production (MEP) hypothesis, and John Whitfield describes why life is actually may be favored by the second law of thermodynamics. At first glance, life and the laws of thermodynamics seem to be…