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I had mostly moved on from debunking creationist claims, but this latest nonsense from Casey Luskin at the DI is even stupider than usual, so they pulled me back in. Predictably, he also left out contradictory data.
#evolution #creationism #intelligentdesign

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How stupid has science been? | EMBO reports EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

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Building Heideggerian AI LLM benchmarks and the stubborn persistence of rationalism

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The Controversy Over Organ Transplants and Cannabis Are cannabis users worse transplant recipients, or is the denial of transplant for cannabis use just a type of bias?

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The AI Was Fed Sloppy Code. It Turned Into Something Evil. | Quanta Magazine The new science of “emergent misalignment” explores how PG-13 training data — insecure code, superstitious numbers or even extreme-sports advice — can open the door to AI’s dark side.

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Why Are Some Doctors Pretending to Do CPR? You Should Know About 'Slow Code' Although it sounds wrong, performative CPR is sometimes the most humane thing to do.

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Setting Our Scopes on Things Above - Christianity Today A century after the infamous trial, evangelicals can unbundle faith from culture wars and recover a wiser witness.

"A century after the infamous [Scopes] trial, evangelicals can unbundle faith from culture wars and recover a wiser witness," urges S. Joshua Swamidass (@swamidass.bsky.social).

How do you figure this? “The crucial point here is that the gap difference between humans and chimps is about the same as the average gap difference between any two gorillas.” I don’t see that in the figure…

Thanks for altering us!

NIH Director: Image Bearers Are Not Biohazards - Christianity Today Christian physician Jay Bhattacharya wants to use repentance and research to rebuild trust in public health.

Christian physician Jay Bhattacharya wants to use repentance and research to rebuild trust in public health.

Read @swamidass.bsky.social’s interview with the new director of the National Institutes of Health:

He is a good dancer.

Did he actually alert these colleagues?

I'm honestly confused by your point here. What evidence is there that he did push it up the chain? He said he would. But did he?

Agreed.

Term limits do seem like a good idea. Too many older scientists hold on too long to positions of power. Arguably at least, that’s true of Collins. Probably true of all generations but perhaps more so for the boomers.

Major biomedical funder NIH poised for massive reform under Trump 2.0 Sweeping changes and more research scrutiny could be on the way for the US National Institutes of Health.

Looking at some of the reforms to the #NIH. The term limits for the director seem to be a direct response to dissatisfaction with Francis Collins, was director for more than 12 years. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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