The Death of the Eccentric (and Relevant) Professor (and what ChatGPT will do)
“The eccentric university professor is a species that is going to be extinct fast. […] The bad currency is driving out the good and in effect where the people who are nimble in the art of writing fo…
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Follow the Science or Elitist Delusion?
“We know precisely and scientifically what the effects of pollution, waste of natural resources, the population explosion, the armaments race, etc., are going to be. We are told so every day by count…
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The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero
"The chance that there will be any permanent ice left in the Arctic after 2022 is essentially zero"How did this prediction by Harvard climate scientist James Anderson in 2018 published in my favouri…
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Endless Wonders in Reflexion
“An animal is a model. Any organism is a model of the world in which it lives. One way to understand this is to imagine a zoologist presented with the body of an animal she has never seen before. If…
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The Case Against Education
“My best guess says signaling accounts for 80% of education’s return”, Bryan CaplanMaybe I was wrong believing that current universities are in major trouble, because their quality of research and mo…
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Kritische Reflexion der Wissenschaft nach der Pandemie
Coronavirus»Wer sich „nicht auskennt“, soll die Schnauze halten. Die Frage ist: Wer bestimmt, wer sich auskennt? Jan Böhmermann? Sascha Lobo?«Es freut mich, dass jetzt endlich kritische Artikel in de…
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