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	Podcast:		Intelligent Design The Future
	Episode:		Biologist Jonathan Wells Offers a Cure for Zombie Science
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:17:51
	Publish Date:		2021-10-04 22:18:10
	Description:		On this ID the Future, Zombie Science author and biologist Jonathan Wells and host Andrew McDiarmid explore the seductive but misleading appeal to consensus science. This is when someone makes a bandwagon appeal to support a scientific hypothesis rather than offering evidence and arguments—as in, “All serious scientists agree that X is the case.” Wells says history makes hash of the consensus-science appeal because the history of scientific progress is all about a consensus view being overthrown by a newer, more accurate view that for a time was a minority view. Wells also draws a distinction between evidence-based empirical science and ideologically driven science. The example he gives for the latter: scientific materialism. Instead of a search for truth about Read More › Source
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