The skeptic
- Nir Lahav
- January 27, 2023
- 10 תגובות
In the 18th century, the process of turning monarchies into democracies began, but it still took many years for blacks and women to get basic rights
- Nir Lahav
- January 24, 2023
- 16 תגובות
All over the world, including in Israel, there seems to be a wave of populist governments that oppose what are known as Western values - freedom, equal opportunities and globalization (of which science is one of the successful examples). Nir Lahav reviews the development process of these values and why they are threatened now
- Avi Blizovsky
- November 15, 2022
- 3 תגובות
Worse than that, there is a huge increase in the number of injuries to the families of victims of attacks by people who were convinced that the attacks were a production and that the victims were actors
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- November 4, 2022
Doctors who see a bowel cancer patient tend to refer more patients to tests for early detection. Is this a correct response?
- Science site The Conversation
- October 14, 2022
- 6 תגובות
Thomas is a locomotive and his movements are determined by the shape of the track, his operation as a locomotive and the railway workers. So is his free will just an illusion? And what does this mean about humans in reality?
- Dr.Roey Tsezana
- October 6, 2022
Taxi drivers and many others tend to believe any theory as long as it does not appear in the mainstream media but on fringe sites that profit - financially or politically - from these theories
- Science site The Conversation
- September 12, 2022
- 8 תגובות
The Drake equation is not a law of nature, but an educated estimate of the number of intelligent civilizations we can discover, but it is enough to stimulate the imagination.
- Tel Aviv University
- July 20, 2022
- 3 תגובות
According to the researchers: "The method is indeed very effective, but it is not always safe either. Sometimes chromosomes that have been cut in the procedure fail to recover and the stability of the genome is undermined - something that in the long run may even cause cancer"
- Dothan Rice
- July 13, 2022
- 31 תגובות
The Drake formula was an attempt to calculate the probability of intelligent life on other planets. But human history shows that the formula was probably too optimistic, and that there is something missing in the calculation. This missing parameter could be critical to understanding the development of intelligent life in the galaxy, and more importantly: the development of humanity, and its chances of survival
- Ehud Amir
- June 29, 2022
- 30 תגובות
What is the connection between the conspiracy theory about COVID-XNUMX and vaccines, chemtrails and the conspiracy theory about evolution and science in general? What does this connection say about the generic, stereotypical and one-dimensional way of thinking of the conspirators?
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 28, 2022
- 16 תגובות
Stupidify Stupidify according to the Oxford dictionary. There are too many people who want the citizens to be stupid. Democracy fell when ancient Rome became an empire, the end is known. Everything should be done to stop the process
- Bar-Ilan University
- May 6, 2022
Prof. Feldman will receive funding of 2.5 million euros over the next five years for his proposal "Understanding the Feasibility of Voluntary Compliance in Different Doctrines and Cultures: Examining Behavioral and Regulatory Aspects in the Ability of Democratic Governments to Trust the Cooperation, Compliance and Ethics of Their Citizens"
- Avi Blizovsky
- March 29, 2022
- One response
As part of its deadly attack on Ukraine, Russia has taken the rare step of using intellectual property rights as a war tactic. In early March, the Russian government issued a decree according to which Russian companies are no longer obliged to compensate owners of patents, service models and industrial designs from "unfriendly" countries. Intellectual property experts explain what the decision means
- Avi Blizovsky
- February 2, 2022
- 13 תגובות
The incoming president of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences, Prof. David Harel, is trying to dispel this dichotomy. In a conversation with the science website, he explains that, among other things, he intends to reduce the gap between those who support science and those who despise it
- Avi Blizovsky
- December 27, 2021
- 14 תגובות
Belief in science has turned from the basis of democratic decisions into a political matter. Researchers who have studied the processes are trying to explain how we got to this situation and what needs to be done to stop the phenomenon. If we do not stop the process, we will return to the Middle Ages, explain a number of sociologists who have examined the issue
- Ehud Amir
- November 27, 2021
- 21 תגובות
"Brandolini's Law" states that the amount of energy required to disprove a conspiracy theory is ten times the amount of energy required to produce it
- Dothan Rice
- November 19, 2021
- 92 תגובות
Flat Earth believers display self-confidence when they make contradictory claims. They are also required to investigate on their own. The Stochastic investigation tries to achieve order out of extreme confusion. Lots of different conspiracy theories are mixed together. Dotan Reiss joined the groups of followers of the Flat Land, and tried to understand from them how they think
- Science site The Conversation
- September 27, 2021
- 20 תגובות
One of the researchers responsible for the discovery tells how an asteroid similar to the one that caused the incident in Tungaska in Siberia in 1908, hit a city in Jordan northeast of the Dead Sea. The city was abandoned afterwards, and the echoes of the explosion hit other cities in the vicinity, including Jericho
- Avi Blizovsky
- August 16, 2021
- 16 תגובות
- Avi Blizovsky
- August 7, 2021
- 6 תגובות
Astronomer Avi Leib announces the Galileo project for a systematic scientific search for evidence of technological objects from outer space and not to dismiss out of hand an explanation for undeciphered phenomena, whether these are alleged UFOs revealed by the American government or a space object with strange behavior such as Omuamoa
- Universe Today
- June 26, 2021
- 12 תגובות
The assessment is that most of them are misinterpretations of conventional events, for example flocks of birds or drones, military systems in a secret American experiment and the greatest fear is of superior technology developed by a foreign power
- Yoram Soreq
- June 26, 2021
- 5 תגובות
Religion is not just a system of supernatural beliefs. Faith is not a religion, in fact a religion can exist without an orderly theological meaning but will always include worship, rules of conduct and above all community. Religion is probably a product of human evolution
- Yoram Soreq
- June 11, 2021
- 4 תגובות
Corbus wonders: "Is religion part of human nature? Why do people need religion? Do we have some quality that makes us believe? Is it a natural state for man to believe in the supernatural?"
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 1, 2021
- 16 תגובות
Ahead of the event, a documentary film maker released a video of a 'swarm of UFOs' over a US Navy ship in 2019. Former President Obama also stated in a television interview that there is evidence of the existence of mysterious objects whose behavior "we cannot explain"
- The Hebrew University
- April 30, 2021
New technologies in the field of genetic engineering today allow us to change the properties of different species quickly and with great flexibility, for example controlling the reproductive capacity of pests, but are they safe?