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Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?

Naïve faith and wholesale pessimism are not your only options.

05.01.2026 40

The New York Times

Elay Shech

If it looks like a dire wolf, is it a dire wolf? How to define a species is a scientific and philosophical question

Figuring out whether de-extinction is possible is as much a technical puzzle as a philosophical one. Add two kinds of DNA to the mix, and it gets even...

30.05.2025 4

The Conversation

Elay Shech

Colors are objective, according to two philosophers − even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see

An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers. But that doesn’t mean...

25.04.2025 10

The Conversation

Elay Shech