The idea that the universe is expanding was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and has been repeatedly backed ...

Are CT scans silently triggering a cancer epidemic—or are we being misled by speculative modeling and media-fueled fear? A ...

This week, a group of about 100 physicists and philosophers have gathered in Munich to reassess a question at the heart of science: “Why trust a theory?” In an opinion piece by George Ellis ...

I am often asked by psychologists and other scientists if there is “empirical support” for the Tree of Knowledge System.My first response is: “Absolutely. Look around.

Richard’s examples for this non-empirical evaluation—arguments commonly made by string theorists in favor of their theory—are (1) the absence of alternative explanations, (2) the use of ...

You can calculate empirical probability by creating a ratio between the number of ways an event happened to the number of opportunities for it to have happened. In other words, 75 heads out of 100 ...

George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan tips his hat to the famous Card/Krueger study, the ur-source of the belief that despite what all economic theory would tell you, the minimum wage ...

The theory is subject to a number of attacks. First, there is the question of whether any of it is actually true. Do patrons use nonprofit status as a signal of “trustworthiness” and does it ...

Thes is a reprint of E.L. Thorndike's article "Empirical Studies in the Theory of Measurment" from The Archives of Psychology, No. 3, April, 1907. It includes some underlining and marginalia. Location ...

The racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory, which claims white people are being systematically “replaced” by people of color through mass immigration, possibly orchestrated by a ...