2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?

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2014 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC IDEA IS READY FOR RETIREMENT?

The Theory of Everything Geoffrey West Theoretical Physcicist; Shannan Distinguished Professor and...	The Theory of Everything Geoffrey West Theoretical Physcicist; Shannan Distinguished Professor and...
The Theory of Everything Geoffrey West Theoretical Physcicist; Shannan Distinguished Professor and...	There is No Reality in the Quantum World Anton Zeilinger Nobel laureate (2022 - Physics); Physicist, University of...
M-theory / String Theory is the Only Game in Town Eric R. Weinstein Mathematician and Economist; Managing Director of Thiel...	Moore's Law Andrian Kreye Editor-at-large of the German Daily Newspaper, Sueddeutsche...
People Are Sheep David Berreby Journalist; Author, Us and Them	Information Overload Jay Rosen Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University
Universal Grammar Benjamin K. Bergen Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, University of...	The Universe Began In A State Of Extraodinarily Low Entropy Alan Guth Cosmologist; Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics, MIT...
Long-Term Memory Is Immutable Todd C. Sacktor Distinguished Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology, and...	Heights And Lengths And Areas Of Rectangles Robert Sapolsky Neuroscientist, Stanford University; Author, Behave
Uniformity And Uniqueness Of The Universe Andrei Linde Theoretical Physicist, Stanford; Father of Eternal Chaotic...	Race Nina Jablonski Biological Anthropologist and Paleobiologist; Evan Pugh...
Life Evolves Via A Shared Genetic Toolkit Seirian Sumner Reader, Behavioral Ecology, University College London	Nature = Objects Scott Sampson President & CEO, Science World British Columbia;...
The Uncertainty Principle Kai Krause Software Pioneer; Philosopher; Author, A Realtime...	Associationism Oliver Scott Curry Senior Researcher, Director, The Oxford Morals Project,...
Habitable Zone Dimitar D. Sasselov Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University; Director,...	Urvogel Julia Clarke John A. Wilson Professor and HHMI Professor, Jackson School...
Entropy Bruce Parker Visiting Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology; Author...	Certainty. Absolute Truth. Exactitude. Richard Saul Wurman Founder, TED Conference; EG Conference; TEDMED Conferences...
Calculus Andrew Lih Associate Professor of Journalism, American University;...	We'll Never Hit Barriers To Scientific Understanding Martin Rees Former President, The Royal Society; Emeritus Professor of...
Intelligence As a Property Alexander Wissner-Gross Scientist; Inventor; Entrepreneur; Investor	The Way We Produce And Advance Science Kathryn Clancy Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois...
Moral Blank State-ism Kiley Hamlin Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in...	Scientific Knowledge Should Be Structured as "Literature" Brian Christian Author, The Most Human Human; Co-author (with Tom Griffiths...
The Universe Amanda Gefter Science writer; Author, Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn	Big Data Gary Marcus Professor of Psychology, Director NYU Center for Language...
The Illusion of Scientific Progress Paul Saffo Technology Forecaster; Consulting Associate Professor,...	Mental Illness is Nothing But Brain Illness Ian Gold Neuroscientist; Canada Research Chair in Philosophy &...
Mental Illness is Nothing But Brain Illness Joel Gold Psychiatrist; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry,...	Rational Actor Models: The Competence Corollary Susan Fiske Eugene Higgins Professor, Department of Psychology,...
Big Effects Have Big Explanations Fiery Cushman Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard...	The Altruism Hierarchy Jamil Zaki Assistant Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Only "Scientists" Can Do Science Kate Mills Doctoral student, UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience	Natural Selection is the Only Engine of Evolution Athena Vouloumanos Associate Professor of Psychology, Director, NYU Infant...
Altruism Tor Nørretranders Writer; Speaker; Thinker, Copenhagen, Denmark	Sadness is Always Bad, Happiness is Always Good June Gruber Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Colorado,...
Large Randomized Controlled Trials Dean Ornish Founder and President of the non-profit Preventive Medicine...	Animal Mindlessness Kate Jeffery Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Dept. of...
Crime is Only About The Actions Of Individuals Eduardo Salcedo-Albaran Philosopher; Director, Scientific Vortex, Inc.	Some Questions Are Just Too Hard For Young Scientists To Tackle Ross Anderson Professor of Security Engineering at Cambridge University
"Science" Ian Bogost Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies and...	Statistical Independence Bart Kosko Information Scientist and Professor of Electrical...
Bias is Always Bad Tom Griffiths Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology,...	Aesthetic Motivation Sarah Demers Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics, Yale...
Left-Brain/Right-Brain Sarah-Jayne Blakemore Psychology Professor, University of Cambridge; Author,...	"The Rocket Scientist" Victoria Wyatt Associate Professor of History in Art, University of...
Continuity of Time Ernst Pöppel Head of Research Group Systems, Neuroscience and Cognitive...	Opposites Can’t Both Be Right Eldar Shafir William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public...
Simple Answers Gavin Schmidt Climatologist; Director, NASA's Goddard Institute for...	The Self Bruce Hood Chair of Developmental Psychology in Society, University of...
"Our" Intuitions Stephen J. Stich Board of Governors Professor, Department of Philosophy,...	Beauty is in the Eyes of the Beholder David M. Buss Professor of Psychology, University of Texas, Austin;...
Stationarity Laurence C. Smith Professor of Environmental Studies, Brown University;...	Individuality Nigel Goldenfeld Physicist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
String Theory Frank Tipler Professor of Mathematical Physics, Tulane University;...	Spacetime Steve Giddings Theoretical Physicist; Professor, Department of Physics,...
Radical Behaviorism Simon Baron-Cohen Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of...	Markets Are Bad; Markets Are Good Michael I. Norton Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration,...
Left Brain/Right Brain Stephen M. Kosslyn Founding Dean, Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate...	The Illusion of Certainty Mary Catherine Bateson Professor Emerita, George Mason University; Visiting...
Evolution is True Roger Highfield Director, External Affairs, Science Museum Group; Co-author...	Common Sense Robert Provine Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, Baltimore...
Emotion is Peripheral Brian Knutson Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience; Stanford...	Scientists Should Stick to Science Buddhini Samarasinghe Molecular Biologist
Culture Laura Betzig Anthropologist; Historian	Scientific Inference Via Statistical Rituals Gerd Gigerenzer Psychologist; Director, Harding Center for Risk Literacy,...
Science Can Maximize Our Happiness Paul Bloom Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Psychology and...	Numbering Nature Kurt Gray Associate Professor of Psychology, University of North...
Carbon Footprints Daniel Goleman Psychologist; Author (with Richard Davidson), Altered Traits	The Neural Correlates of Consciousness Susan Blackmore Psychologist; Visiting Professor, University of Plymouth;...
We are Stone Age Thinkers Alun Anderson Senior Consultant (and former Editor-in-Chief and...	Unification Marcelo Gleiser Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy, Dartmouth College...
Inclusive Fitness Martin Nowak Professor of Biology and Mathematics, Harvard University;...	Quantum Jumps David Deutsch Physicist, University of Oxford; Author, The Beginning of...
Science = Big Science Samuel Arbesman Complexity Scientist; Scientist in Residence at Lux Capital...	The Intrinsic Beauty and Elegance Of Mathematics Allows It to Describe Nature. Gregory Benford Emeritus Professor of Physics and Astronomy, UC-Irvine;...
Truer Perceptions Are Fitter Perceptions Donald D. Hoffman Cognitive Scientist, UC, Irvine; Author, The Case Against...	The Universe Seth Lloyd Professor of Quantum Mechanical Engineering, MIT; Author,...
Anti-anecdotalism Nicholas G. Carr Author, Utopia is Creepy	Brain Plasticity Leo M. Chalupa Neurobiologist; Professor of Pharmacology and Physiology,...
Cognitive Agency Thomas Metzinger Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Johannes Gutenberg-...	A Science of Language Should Be Concerned Only With 'Competence' Nick Enfield Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, University...
Unbridled Scientific and Technological Optimism Stuart Pimm Doris Duke Chair of Conservation Ecology, Duke University;...	Unlimited and Eternal Growth Hans Ulrich Obrist Curator, Serpentine Gallery, London; Editor: A Brief...
Scientists Ought to Know Everything Scientifically Knowable Ed Regis Science writer; Author, Monsters	Stationarity Giulio Boccaletti Chief Strategy Officer of The Nature Conservancy; Author,...
The Average Nicholas A. Christakis Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science, Yale...	Knowing is Half the Battle Tamar Gendler Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, and Chair,...
Knowing is Half the Battle Laurie R. Santos Professor of Psychology, Director, Comparative Cognition...	Cause and Effect W. Daniel Hillis Physicist, Computer Scientist, Co-Founder, Applied...
Human Evolutionary Exceptionalism Michael McCullough Professor of Psychology, Director, Evolution and Human...	Evidence-Based Medicine Gary Klein Senior Scientist, MacroCognition LLC; Author, Seeing What...
There Can Be No Science Of Art Jonathan Gottschall Distinguished Research Fellow, English Department,...	Mouse Models Azra Raza, M.D. Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine, Columbia University...
Max Planck's Faith Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Psychologist; Director, Quality of Life Research Center,...	The Rational Individual Alex "Sandy" Pentland Professor of Computer Science, MIT; Director, MIT...
The Tragedy Of The Commons Luca De Biase Journalist; Editor, Nova 24, of Il Sole 24 Ore	Science Progresses Most Efficiently By Allocating Funds Via Peer Review Aubrey de Grey Gerontologist; Chief Science Officer, SENS Foundation;...
Science Makes Philosophy Obsolete Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Philosopher, Novelist; Recipient, 2014 National Humanities...	IQ Scott Atran Anthropologist; Emeritus Research Director, Centre National...
Robot Companions Sherry Turkle Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of...	Brain Modules Patricia S. Churchland Philosopher and Neuroscientist; Author, Conscience: The...
The "Naturalness" Argument Peter Woit Mathematical Physicist, Columbia University; Author, Not...	The Clinician's Law of Parsimony Gerald Smallberg Practicing Neurologist, New York City; Playwright, Off-Off...
Statistical Significance Charles Seife Professor of Journalism, New York University; Former...	Cartesian Hydrolicism Robert Kurzban Psychologist, UPenn; Director, Penn Laboratory for...
Economic Growth César Hidalgo Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab; Author, Why Information...	Repression David G. Myers Professor of Psychology, Hope College; Co-author,...
Artificial Intelligence Roger Schank CEO, Socratic Arts Inc.; John Evans Professor Emeritus of...	Theories of Anything Paul J. Steinhardt Albert Einstein Professor in Science, Departments of...
Human Nature Peter Richerson Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California-...	"Addiction" Helen Fisher Biological Anthropologist, Rutgers University; Author, Why...
The Distinction Between Antisociality And Mental Illness Abigail Marsh Associate Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University	Standard Deviation Nassim Nicholas Taleb Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, New York...
Essentialist Views of the Mind Lisa Feldman Barrett University Distinguished Professor of Psychology,...	The Scientific Method Melanie Swan Philosophy and Economic Theory, the New School for Social...
Humaniqueness Irene Pepperberg Research Associate & Lecturer, Harvard; Author, Alex...	Human Being=Homo Sapiens Steve Fuller Philosopher; Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology,...
Humans Are By Nature Social Animals Adam Waytz Psychologist; Associate Professor of Management and...	The Input-Output Model of Perception and Action Andy Clark Professor of Cognitive Philosophy, Department of Philosophy...
Our World Has Only Three Space Dimensions Gordon Kane Theoretical Particle Physicist and Cosmologist; Victor...	The Linear No-Threshold (LNT) Radiation Dose Hypothesis Stewart Brand Founder, the Whole Earth Catalog; Co-founder, The Well; Co-...
Anthropocentricity Satyajit Das Former Financier; Author, Age of Stagnation	Culture Pascal Boyer Anthropologist and Psychologist, Washington University in...
Multiple Regression as a Means of Discovering Causality Richard Nisbett Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished University Professor of...	Science Advances By Funerals Samuel Barondes Professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry, UCSF; Author,...
Free Will Jerry A. Coyne Professor Emeritus, Department of Ecology and Evolution,...	Somatic Mutation Theory of Cancer Paul Davies Theoretical physicist; cosmologist; astro-biologist; co-...
Things Are Either True Or False Alan Alda Actor; Writer; Director; Host, PBS program Brains on Trial...	The Standard Approach To Meaning Dan Sperber Social and Cognitive Scientist; CEU Budapest and CNRS Paris...
Computer Science Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, Director, MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms;...	The Laws of Physics Are Predetermined Lawrence M. Krauss Theoretical Physicist; Foundation Professor, School of...
Malthusianism Matt Ridley Science Writer; Fellow, Royal Society of Literature and the...	Simplicity A. C. Grayling Master of the New College of the Humanities; Supernumerary...
Our Narrow Definition of "Science" Sam Harris Neuroscientist; Philosopher; Author, Making Sense	The Big Bang Was The First Moment Of Time Lee Smolin Physicist, Perimeter Institute; Author, Einstein's...
Essentialism Richard Dawkins Evolutionary Biologist; Emeritus Professor of the Public...	Nature Versus Nurture Timo Hannay Founding Managing Director, SchoolDash; Co-organizer, Sci...
One Genome Per Individual Eric Topol Professor of Genomics, The Scripps Translational Science...	[Questioning the Question:] Beware of arrogance! Retire nothing! Ian McEwan Novelist; Recipient, the Man Booker Prize for Fiction;...
Innateness Alison Gopnik Psychologist, UC, Berkeley; Author, The Gardener and the...	Replication As a Safety Net Adam Alter Psychologist; Assistant Professor of Marketing, Stern...
Languages Conditioning Worldviews John McWhorter Professor of Linguistics and Western Civilization, Columbia...	The Collapse Of The Wave-Function Freeman Dyson Physicist, Institute of Advanced Study; Author, Disturbing...
The Power of Statistics Emanuel Derman Professor, Financial Engineering, Columbia University;...	The Discovery of the Higgs particle Closes a Chapter in Particle Physics Haim Harari Physicist, former President, Weizmann Institute of Science...
[Questioning the Question:] Science's Rainbow Quilt Jared Diamond Professor of Geography, University of California Los...	The Pursuit of Parsimony Jonathan Haidt Social Psychologist; Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical...
Geometry Carlo Rovelli Theoretical Physicist; Aix-Marseille University, in the...	Infinity Max Tegmark Physicist, MIT; Researcher, Precision Cosmology; Scientific...
Learning And Culture John Tooby Founder of field of Evolutionary Psychology; Co-director,...	The Accumulation Of Relative Yesterdays Christine Finn Archaeologist; Journalist; Author, Artifacts, Past Poetic
Scientific Morality Edward Slingerland Professor of Asian Studies, Canada Research Chair in...	Reproducibility Victoria Stodden Associate Professor of Information Sciences, University of...
Mind Versus Matter Frank Wilczek Physicist, MIT; Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics;...	Only Some Experiences Affect The Brain Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard...
Behavior = Genes + Environment Steven Pinker Johnstone Family Professor, Department of Psychology;...	The Computational Metaphor Rodney A. Brooks Panasonic Professor of Robotics (emeritus); Former Director...
The Grand Analogy David Gelernter Computer Scientist, Yale University; Chief Scientist,...	Psychogenic Illness Beatrice Golomb Professor of Medicine at UCSD
Hard-Wired=Permanent Michael Shermer Publisher, Skeptic magazine; Monthly Columnist, Scientific...	Planck's Cynical View Of Scientific Change Hugo Mercier Cognitive Scientist, French National Center for Scientific...
The Atheism Prerequisite Douglas Rushkoff Media Analyst; Documentary Writer; Author, Throwing Rocks...	Grandmother Cells Terrence J. Sejnowski Computational Neuroscientist; Francis Crick Professor, the...
Falsifiability Sean Carroll Theoretical Physicist, Caltech; Author, Something Deeply...	Instinct and Innate Daniel L. Everett Linguistic Researcher; Dean of Arts and Sciences, Bentley...
Homo Economicus Margaret Levi Sara Miller McCune Director, Center For Advanced Study in...	[Questioning the Question:] Don't Give Wrong Theories Funerals. Just Stop Treating Them as True. Richard H. Thaler Father of Behavioral Economics; Recipient, 2017 Nobel...
The Mind Is Just The Brain Tania Lombrozo Professor of Psychology, UC Berkeley	The Hard Problem Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Co...
The Bigger An Animal's Brain, The Greater Its Intelligence Nicholas Humphrey Emeritus Professor of Psychology, London School of...	Naturalness, Hierarchy And Space-Time Maria Spiropulu Shang-Yi Ch’en Professor of Physics, California Institute...
Science and Technology George Dyson Science Historian; Author, Analogia	Fully Random Mutations Kevin Kelly Senior Maverick, Wired; Author, What Technology Wants and...