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Is Science Reaching Its Limits? — John Horgan

May 10, 2021

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The End of Science

2min

The End of Science

5min

The End of Science

2min

The Limits of Science

2min

The Importance of Scientific Research

3min

The Deep Roots Theory of War

3min

The Limits of Science

5min

The Future of Quantum Computing

2min

10.

The Science Journalist's Split Personality on UFOs

3min

11.

Freeman Dyson Believed in ASP

2min

12.

The Ambition Around Science in the 80s

3min

13.

The End of Science

5min

14.

The Measurement Problem in Science

3min

15.

How to Measure Scientific Progress in Aggregation

2min

16.

The Stagnating Total Factor Productivity Growth

2min

17.

The Limits of Science

5min

18.

The Importance of String Theory

4min

19.

The Dilemma of Self-Contradiction in Karl Popper

4min

20.

The Importance of Falsifiability in Journalism

5min

21.

The Limits of Science

5min

22.

The Importance of a Theory of Everything

5min

23.

The Dispassionate Quality of Chomsky

3min

24.

The End of Science

5min

John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. He was senior writer at Scientific American from 1986-1997 and is the author of the bestselling book The End of Science.

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