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Perhaps there are periods in science where it makes sense for most scientists to sweep foundational worries under the carpet and make progress on applications, postponing the inevitable reckoning with the inconsistencies to a time when there are better hints from experiment. THALER'S QUESTION - An EDGE Special Event

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A photo tour of the Large Hadron Collider Some exotic-looking silver hardware rises in front of the CERN visitor's center (brown dome in backdrop).

Retraction Watch Those high numbers caught the attention of a lot of major media outlets, from Nature to NPR to the Wall Street Journal . Science publications, including LiveScience and The Scientist , have done their own end-of-year retraction lists.

Antoine, D., Hillson, S., & Dean, M. (2009) The developmental clock of dental enamel: a test for the periodicity of prism cross-striations in modern humans and an evaluation of the most likely sources of error in histological studies of this kind . Journal of Anatomy, 214(1), 45-55. Posts - Research Blogging

"GALEX is going into standby mode in preparation for shut down. It is working fine, but past its design lifetime, as so many NASA satellites do nowadays, and there is no more money for mission operation and data analysis. "There is a rumour that Caltech hustled for some private money to extend MODA, but they may not be able to do it anyway, because of liability and ownership issues. ScienceBlogs

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Pharyngula At the time I never even considered science as a path for leaving religion or that religion and science were naturally opposed to each other. By the time I was 16, I considered myself an atheist and really had no doubts about the matter.

Atheism and skepticism

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