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U.S. Wants Working Commercial Fusion Reactor by 2035
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2 years ago
Some significant progress has been made in the last couple of years. Let's hope this time the dream becomes a reality. It will be necessary in my mind if we are to embrace a world of electric...
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Americans' trust in science now deeply polarized, poll shows
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3 years ago
Americans are not as polarized over science as these journalistic narratives suggest. And, if the reporting is accurate, then the political biases are quite apparent in news reporting. What is...
Correlation between religiosity and scientific illiteracy or hostility
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4 years ago
Back in 2017, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson gave a presentation in South Carolina where he addressed the issue of scientific illiteracy. The summary of his presentation is below: Americans overall...
Belgium's top COVID-19 scientist is being hunted by a far-right sniper
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4 years ago
The search for fugitive Conings began when he went on the run in mid-May (Getty Images) Important Related Seed: A Pharmacist Who Deliberately Ruined COVID Vaccine Doses Is Going To...
The Fallacy of Biblical Stories, Part 9: Sodom and Gomorrah
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4 years ago
Hi everyone, it has been a long time since I last posted an article in my fallacy of biblical stories series. So, I thought now might be a good time to do so. If you reviewed the previous...
There Used to Be Aliens in Our Galaxy, but They Killed Themselves Off
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5 years ago
So much scientific speculation and opinionating over something that is little more than a conspiracy theory. Cosmic annihilation is as plausible as anything else scientists have promoted as...
The First Americans Are Being Vaccinated. Now, the Hard Part
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5 years ago
The deployment of the vaccines will be very predictable. The obvious first phase involves vaccinating health care workers and the most vulnerable. A common sense approach. But that first phase...
Coronavirus: Health experts join global anti-lockdown movement
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5 years ago
Herein lies the problem, imo. There are scientists and there is science and frankly... many fields of science. In this case we have scientists declaring the dangers of current lockdown procedures,...
The Fallacy of Biblical Stories, Part 7: The Virgin Birth
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5 years ago
Up until now, I've have been focusing on the biblical stories of the Old Testament. For part 7 of the series, I will look at what is one of the most famous and celebrated stories of the New...
The Fallacy of Biblical Stories, Part 6: The Day the Sun Stood Still
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5 years ago
Welcome to Part 6 of the fallacy of biblical stories series. This one will focus on a supposed celestial event described in the bible. Namely, the time God caused the sun to stop moving for...
Coronavirus: Some scientists believe herd immunity is closer than originally thought
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5 years ago
A dose of reality. Herd immunity will not be random or universal, as has been assumed in many models. Unsurprisingly controlling spread of the virus in less affluent communities will be more...
The Fallacy of Biblical Stories, Part 5: The Tower of Babel
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5 years ago
Welcome to Part 5 of the biblical fallacy series. Today we are looking at the ancient skyscraper wannabe, the Tower of Babel. It's an ancient construction project that is supposed to explain the...
Book Review: 'Science Fictions' Shows How Human Flaws Undermine Science
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5 years ago
The term 'science' is a large umbrella used to hide a variety of sins. The types of science that seems most susceptible to fraud, bias, negligence, and hype are those most heavily dependent upon...
You Must Not 'Do Your Own Research' When It Comes To Science
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5 years ago
We've heard these same arguments from orthodox religion. The orthodoxy has been formulated by a consensus of experts who have spent their lives studying and understanding theology. Often the...
The Fallacy of Biblical Stories, Part 4: Jonah and the Whale
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5 years ago
For Part 4 of the series, I will be examining the story of Jonah and the Whale (or is it a "big fish?"). On the surface, this story seems like it came directly from a children's fairy tale book....
The Fallacy of Biblical Stories, Part 3: The 10 Plagues of Egypt
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5 years ago
For Part 3 in my series on the fallacies of biblical stories, A few individuals have suggested I explore the veracity of the 10 plagues of Egypt, as it seems quite fitting since we are all...
The Fallacy of Biblical Stories, Part 1: The Great Flood & Noah's Ark
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4 years ago
This article is the first in a series of articles I plan to write (depending on my available time and interest) objectively examining popular biblical stories to establish their veracity or...
Moderna coronavirus vaccine effort to get $483 million in federal funding
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5 years ago
This may help lead to a successful vaccine for the CoronaVirus . . .good news not only for smart investors, but potentially great news for all Americans! Full disclosure: I own...
Here’s an example of the crazy lengths NASA goes to land safely on Mars
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6 years ago
If all goes well, the Mars 2020 mission will launch toward the Red Planet next July. Then, after a six-month cruise to Mars, a lander carrying a 1-ton rover will detach from the spacecraft and...
Prof. Muhammad Bashouti: The scientist who makes smart devices from molecules
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6 years ago
Photo of Dr. Muhammad Bashouti by Wolfgang If you isolate a single molecule of a conductive metal, can it conduct energy all by itself? That question nagged Muhammad Bashouti in high...
Ex-Atheist Dr. Sarah Salviander Destroys Atheism with One Tweet
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6 years ago
If you're unfamiliar with Dr. Sarah Salviander, I encourage you to make her acquaintance. She's a Christian apologist, takes the Genesis creation account literally (although she's not a young...
The Milky Way as You’ve Never Seen It Before – AMNH SciCafe
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7 years ago
So, there I was looking for the next in a series of lectures concerning the geology of our Pacific North West and something caught my eye. Turns out a new satellite was recently launched which...
Have you ever wondered how hot it can get?
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7 years ago
While doing some research this evening I came across a curious video about temperature and how hot temperatures can get. Here it is for viewing entertainment: While viewing the above video I...
Climate change could affect human evolution. Here's how. Global warming will likely alter the internal workings of our bodies — and cause a noticeable shift in our appearance.
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6 years ago
As climate change brings rising temperatures, droughts, shifting patterns of precipitation and longer growing seasons, plants and animals are evolving to keep pace.Biologists have observed...
![Why There Is No God: Quick Responses to 10 Common Theist Arguments [for the existence of god]](https://thenewstalkers.com/group_discuss/image/discuss_image/5083/medium/crop=auto/_v=63f541535516789 "Why There Is No God: Quick Responses to 10 Common Theist Arguments [for the existence of god]")
Why There Is No God: Quick Responses to 10 Common Theist Arguments [for the existence of god]
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7 years ago
I have been in many conversations where the debate turns into a discussion about whether God exists or not. Often times, theists will cite some "proof" for a God, which often turns out to be a...
What happens when a patient says, 'Doc, help me die'
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7 years ago
A CNN article from March 2018: My 54-year-old patient was alone in the intensive care unit, with no family or friends in his life. He slumped in his bed, gasping, staring up at me. Admitted with...
Mars rover's new discoveries hailed as 'breakthroughs in astrobiology'
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7 years ago
New discoveries by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity add to a growing body of evidence supporting the idea that microscopic organisms once lived on the red planet — and have some scientists considering...
Abortion does not cause depression, new study finds: Groups that claim abortion leads to mental illness are misleading people, experts say
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7 years ago
From NBC News: Abortions don’t cause depression, although women who have depression and anxiety may be more likely to have abortions, researchers reported Wednesday.The study is the latest to show...
'Brain in a bucket' study spurs medical, ethical debates
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7 years ago
From NBCNews : Three weeks ago, a Yale University neuroscientist, Nenad Sestan, explored the ethical implications of experiments using human brain tissue in an essay in the journal Nature. Then...
Why Is It So Hard to Believe that Many Leading Scientists are Religious?
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7 years ago
Why Is It So Hard to Believe that Many Leading Scientists are Religious? by MATTHEW C. NISBET Big Think today features a new set of interviews with NIH director Francis Collins ,...
We Need Two Kinds of Truth: Why I Don't Want Science or Religion to Win
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7 years ago
by Francis Collins Surveys I have seen indicate about 40% of scientists believe in a God to whom one may pray in expectation of an answer. That’s not a god who went off after creating a...
Patients regain sight with experimental stem cell treatment
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7 years ago
From CBS NEWS : Nearly three years ago, 86-year-old Douglas Waters developed severe vision problems. He was diagnosed with severe wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a chronic eye...
16 Arabs from Israel making a difference on the world stage
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7 years ago
Meet some remarkable Druze, Muslim and Christian scientists, media experts, techies, film stars and athletes from Israel. Prof. Hossam Haick. Photo courtesy of the Technion. Hossam Haick...
Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals large amounts of water ice on Mars
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7 years ago
New HiRISE Images Show 3D Structure of Martian Ice Sheets New images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal...
Evidence Against Young Earth Creationism
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7 years ago
Source: RationalWiki article - Evidence against a recent creation Page intro: The evidence against a recent creation is overwhelming . There is perhaps no greater attack on science than...
Is homosexuality conclusively and solely biologically predetermined? (ie, are you born gay?)
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8 years ago
Not according to the APA and other authoritative figures: “Although much research has examined the possible genetic, hormonal, developmental, social and cultural influences on sexual...
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity are Biologically Determined -- But Bigotry is a [Dumb] Choice!
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8 years ago
All of the available peer-reviewed, unbiased science indicates that sexual orientation is inborn. However, there are so many deniers here on Newsvine and elsewhere. I know that you deniers will...
When White Nationalists Get DNA Tests That Reveal African Ancestry
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8 years ago
Sarah Zhang Aug 17, 2017 For white nationalists, DNA tests are a way to prove their racial purity. Of course, their results don’t always come back that way. And how white nationalists try...
Vatican celebrates big bang to dispel faith-science conflict
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8 years ago
"VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is celebrating the big-bang theory. That’s not as out of this world as it sounds. The Vatican Observatory has invited leading scientists and cosmologists to...
