ELDO Fails Again

A "Dying Theory" Fails Again

"Back in the early 1970s, evolutionary biologists did think that a given piece of DNA specified the same protein subunit in every living thing, and that the genetic code was thus universal," explains biologist Jonathan Wells, another Discovery Institute Senior Fellow. "This was unlikely to have happened by chance, so it was interpreted as evidence that every organism had inherited its genetic c...

A "Dying Theory" Fails Again

"Back in the early 1970s, evolutionary biologists did think that a given piece of DNA specified the same protein subunit in every living thing, and that the genetic code was thus universal," explains biologist Jonathan Wells, another Discovery Institute Senior Fellow. "This was unlikely to have happened by chance, so it was interpreted as evidence that every organism had inherited its genetic c...

Hope Dies Last-Evidence Again Fails to Support a Neuroprotectant: Cerebrolysin for Acute Ischemic Stroke.

See related article, p xxx It has been a long-lasting hope in basic and clinical research to identify neuroprotectant agents that improve clinical outcome after an ischemic stroke. Over a thousand compounds have been tested in the western world without identifying a single compound supported by firm evidence for use in acute stroke. Although 21 traditional Chinese medicines evaluated in clinica...

More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 â•fi 2006

After paradim: why mixing-methodology theorising fails and how to make it work again

Combining multiple methodologies works in practice, but not yet in theory. One of the reasons is that current theorising is dominated by a paradigm mentality, preoccupied with wholesale philosophical legitimation. ‘Paradigm’ and the associated ‘incommensurability’ were once revolutionary heuristic tools; now they are mistaken for the basis of an essentialist foundation. The result is a stifling...