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Seasonal vaccinations available at Waushara County Health Department

The Waushara County Health Department has announced that seasonal vaccinations, including Influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, are available for local residents. Vaccination appointments are scheduled …

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Oct 1 • 7:44 PM EDT • Health • wausharaargus.com
Fan Favorite Headlines Steelers Inactives vs. Browns

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Ahead of Thursday night’s road game against the Cleveland Browns, the Pittsburgh Steelers announced their inactives, headlined […]

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Oct 1 • 6:53 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Microbiome testing company Tiny Health clinches $33M to scale research, enterprise partnerships

Tiny Health, a microbiome testing company, has clinched $33 million in an oversubscribed series B round. | Alongside the funding news, Tiny announced the launch of a $5 million Microbiome Research Program to enable researchers, clinicians and scientific partners to investigate important intervention strategies in microbiome health.

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Oct 1 • 6:50 PM EDT • Health • fiercehealthcare.com
Minnesota Twins Announce Organization's Minor League Players of the Year

The Twins honored the organization's top minor league hitter and pitcher in 2026.

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Oct 1 • 6:33 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Annual Maine Public Health Conference Focuses on Getting ‘Back to the Basics’

This year’s theme, “Nourish to Flourish,” focused on strengthening fundamental building blocks across the state. A key focus: food access.

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Oct 1 • 6:23 PM EDT • Health • wabi.tv
NCAA reduces NIT field to 24 teams

While one postseason college basketball tournament expands, another is contracting. The NCAA announced on Thursday it will reduce the NIT field to 24 teams for 2027, down from the 32-team format it has used for most of its modern history. The move coincides with the NCAA Tournament’s expansion to 76 teams, up from the 68-team…

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Oct 1 • 6:00 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Willis ownership shifting with addition of Sewell family as new partner

Willis Automotive and the Sewell Family of Companies today announced a new partnership that will see Willis Chairman Rich Willis sell the company to current CEO Jason Willis and Collin Sewell of the Sewell Family. Jason Willis will continue to serve as president of Willis Automotive and remain an owner alongside Sewell. Rich Willis, chairman…

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Oct 1 • 5:45 PM EDT • Business • businessrecord.com
Oak Ridger sets Oct. 6 deadline for political submissions

The Oak Ridger has set an Oct. 6 deadline for political campaign announcements and letters supporting candidates.

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Oct 1 • 5:43 PM EDT • Politics • yahoo.com
Leading Sustainable Business's Next Chapter

The Lundquist College of Business is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Jordan as the new director of the Center for Sustainable Business Practices.

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Oct 1 • 5:17 PM EDT • Business • business.uoregon.edu
Corus Entertainment Announces Amendment To Credit Facility

Corus Entertainment Inc TSX:CJR.B:

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Oct 1 • 5:13 PM EDT • Entertainment • tradingview.com
Baltimore Fishbowl | Are there enough women in Maryland politics?

The challenges facing women in politics in Maryland, and how they've made gains but where they've fall short, is the subject of the latest episode of the Maryland Now podcast

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Oct 1 • 5:11 PM EDT • Politics • baltimorefishbowl.com
Carolina Hurricanes games come to Palmetto Sports & Entertainment Network!

National Hockey League’s Carolina Hurricanes, today announced that the team has partnered with Gray Media to simulcast 10 Hurricanes Hockey Network game broadcasts over the air in markets throughout the Carolinas.

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Oct 1 • 5:00 PM EDT • Entertainment • foxcarolina.com
Double-digit health insurance increases will hit individual and small group plans in 2027, again

Hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans are facing significantly more expensive health insurance next year. The average increase for individual and small group insurance plans is 17% for 2027, the state’s Department of Commerce announced Thursday, raising costs for the 203,000 and 184,000 Minnesotans covered by individual and small group plans respectively. Individuals and their families […]

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Oct 1 • 4:55 PM EDT • Health • minnesotareformer.com
Pat McAfee goes on wild tirade after exchange with Jason Kelce on ‘MNF’: ‘I hope you all rot’

Pat McAfee aggressively shouted down fans sticking up for former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce after McAfee playfully scolded him for using the pronoun ‘we’ when discussing the team.

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Oct 1 • 4:49 PM EDT • Entertainment • ew.com
Victor Wembanyama slams players promoting sports betting weeks after LeBron James announces Polymarket deal

Victor Wembanyama made his stance on sports betting very clear. On Thursday, the Spurs superstar spoke to reporters at training camp and answered whether he’d ever sign a deal with...

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Oct 1 • 4:48 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Nearly $55 million awarded to boost healthcare access across rural Alabama

Gov. Kay Ivey announced that 34 grants totaling nearly $55 million are being awarded to healthcare providers and institutions throughout Alabama as part of the second round of the Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program (ARHTP) funding for 2026.

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Oct 1 • 4:47 PM EDT • Health • wbrc.com
Wilson Sonsini Advises SpyGlass Pharma on Acquisition of Advanced Vision Science

On October 1, 2026, SpyGlass Pharma, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the treatment paradigm for patients living with chronic eye conditions, announced the acquisition…

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Oct 1 • 4:47 PM EDT • Science • wsgr.com
Senate Majority Leader Erin Murphy Responds to Health Insurance Rate Increases

SAINT PAUL, Minn. – On Thursday, the Minnesota Department of Commerce announced the health insurance rate increases facing Minnesotans next year. For 203,000 consumers who purchase insurance on the individual market, rates will increase between 9.9 and 21.1 percent; for 184,000 Minnesotans who are insured on small group market plans, rates will increase between 10.6

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Oct 1 • 4:39 PM EDT • Health • senatedfl.mn
Modine Completes Spin-off and Combination of its Performance Technologies Business with Gentherm

/PRNewswire/ -- Modine (NYSE: MOD) ("Modine" or the "Company") today announced the completion of the previously announced spin-off of its Performance...

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Oct 1 • 4:38 PM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
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BLINK announces headline performance ahead of 2026 festival

There are 92 participating artists this year, representing 20 countries. Thirty artists hail from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky.

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Oct 1 • 4:03 PM EDT • Entertainment • spectrumnews1.com
RCX SPORTS AND U.S. BANK ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP ACROSS 10 NFL FLAG REGIONAL TOURNAMENTS

Partnership expands the bank's support for the next generation of flag football athletes RCX Sports, the official operator of NFL FLAG, and U.S. Bank announced...

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Oct 1 • 4:00 PM EDT • Sports • prnewswire.com
Macklemore announces his ‘Free Palestine’ tour dates sold out

Rapper Macklemore is thrilled that the “Free Palestine” tour he launched after being booted from Ed Sheeran’s lineup has sold out its upcoming shows overseas. “I’m honestly blown away. We

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Oct 1 • 3:56 PM EDT • Entertainment • thederrick.com
City of Alamo Announces Appointment of New City Manager

The City of Alamo proudly announces the appointment of Michael Leo as the City’s new City Manager, bringing nearly two decades of local government leadership and a proven track record of financial transformation, operational excellence, and community-focused growth.

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Oct 1 • 3:54 PM EDT • Business • texasborderbusiness.com
Heartland Forward Launches First-of-Its-Kind Tool to Improve Maternal Health and Economic Outcomes

/PRNewswire/ -- Today at the 2026 Heartland Summit, Heartland Forward announced the launch of the beta version of its Maternal Resiliency Index, an...

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Oct 1 • 3:40 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
WTA Unveils 2027 Calendar With Pay Milestone

The WTA has unveiled its 2027 calendar, pairing a historic pay milestone with a lighter load for its top players. It will span 55 events across 26 countries and territories and build toward the WTA Finals in its new home of Charlotte, North Carolina. Announced on Thursday, the calendar adds a new WTA 250 tournament …

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Oct 1 • 3:37 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
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Arkansas, Kentucky each awarded $10M grants for maternal health efforts

A nonprofit founded by philanthropist Olivia Walton announced Thursday it is awarding $10 million grants to Arkansas and Kentucky to improve maternal health in rural communities.

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Oct 1 • 3:30 PM EDT • Health • arkansasadvocate.com
NC Chamber Announces ‘Coolest Things’ for the Year

Coinciding with National Manufacturing Day, the NC Chamber announced winners of this year’s “Coolest Thing Made in NC” competition.

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Oct 1 • 3:08 PM EDT • Business • thepilot.com
Koning Health Announces Agreement with HealthTrust Performance Group, Expanding Access to Advanced Breast CT Technology

/PRNewswire/ -- Koning Health, global leader in breast computed tomography (CT) technology, today announced a new agreement with HealthTrust Performance...

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Oct 1 • 2:39 PM EDT • Health • prnewswire.com
Forget the Packing Cubes: Émigré Reworks How Professionals Pack for Business Travel

Hong Kong, HONG KONG, Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Émigré, the premium business travel apparel and accessories brand, today announced an ex...

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Oct 1 • 2:31 PM EDT • Business • markets.businessinsider.com
GOP hold on Florida and Texas governors’ races weakens, nonpartisan analyst says

President Donald Trump’s poor ratings contributed to the Cook Political Report shifting both races from “Likely Republican” to “Lean Republican.”

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Oct 1 • 2:30 PM EDT • Politics • washingtonpost.com
Rogers Completes Acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment

Will invest to build championship-calibre teams Will invest to deliver world-class experiences to fans and customers Becomes global communications, sports and entertainment leader TORONTO, ON (October 1, 2026) – Rogers Communications Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), increasing its ownership […]

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Oct 1 • 2:21 PM EDT • Entertainment • about.rogers.com
Rogers Completes Acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment

Will invest to build championship-calibre teamsWill invest to deliver world-class experiences to fans and customersBecomes global communications, sports and entertainment leader TORONTO, Oct. 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rogers Communications Inc. announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment (MLSE), increasing its ownership of MLSE to 100%. Rogers acquired the remaining 25% ownership stake in MLSE from Kilmer Sports Inc. for C$4.35 billion. “We’re pr

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Oct 1 • 2:20 PM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Governor Sherrill Launches State Health Benefits Program Reform Working Group

State, labor, and healthcare stakeholders begin structured process to develop recommendations for improving affordability and long-term sustainability TRENTON – Governor Mikie Sherrill today announced the launch of the State Health Benefits Program (SHBP) Reform Working Group, fulfilling a commitment made last month as part of the Administration’s agreement with 17 unions representing State[...]

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Oct 1 • 1:19 PM EDT • Health • insidernj.com
💸 Official: Messi buys a club in Spain

CD Eldense officially announced the acquisition of the club by Leo Messi, marking the beginning of a historic and exciting milestone for the century-old Spanish institution. A project of growth and id...

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Oct 1 • 1:10 PM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Alabama Awards Nearly $55 Million in Additional Rural Health Grants

Alabama Awards Nearly $55 Million in Additional Rural Health GrantsMONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey announced Thursday that 34 grants totaling nearly $5

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Oct 1 • 1:06 PM EDT • Health • abc3340.com
Auro Hotels takes over management of Hyatt Place Greenville Downtown

Auro Hotels has added the Hyatt Place Greenville Downtown to its hotel portfolio in Greenville, the company announced Oct. 1.

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Oct 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • upstatebusinessjournal.com
Japanese Charts: Fire Emblem Sales Plummet, But It's Still Enough To Stay On The Podium

Quiet week, eh?

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Oct 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • nintendolife.com
Limble Acquires FM360's Professional Services Business, Names Founder John Rimer VP of Professional Services

/PRNewswire/ -- Limble, the modern maintenance and asset management platform, today announced the acquisition of the professional services business from FM360,...

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Oct 1 • 1:00 PM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Governor Ivey Announces Additional Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program Grants Totaling Nearly $55 Million -

MONTGOMERY – Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday announced the awarding of 34 grants totaling nearly $55 million to healthcare providers and institutions throughout the state as part of the second round of Alabama Rural Health Transformation Program (ARHTP) funding for 2026. … Continued

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Oct 1 • 12:48 PM EDT • Health • governor.alabama.gov
NVIDIA and Microsoft tease RTX Spark announcements for October 7 Windows event

RTX Spark will be a key focus of Microsoft’s October 7 Windows event with Jensen Huang in attendance. The first systems appear aimed at premium laptops and workstations rather than gaming PCs.

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Oct 1 • 12:48 PM EDT • Technology • videocardz.com
TKO Miller Launches Innovative Donor Advised Fund Initiative to Help Business Owners Multiply Their Charitable Impact Following a Business Sale

/PRNewswire/ -- TKO Miller today announced the launch of its TKO Miller Impact Initiative, a Donor Advised Fund-based (DAF) program designed to help business...

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Oct 1 • 12:44 PM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
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NCDHHS rolls out updated four-year plan, sets four immediate health priorities

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has announced an updated four-year strategic plan and four immediate priority areas intended to guide

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Oct 1 • 12:35 PM EDT • Health • wcti12.com
New Spartanburg behavioral health center to expand youth’s access to mental health care

Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System announced the opening of a new Adolescent Behavioral Health Unit to help expand access to youth mental health care.

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Oct 1 • 12:29 PM EDT • Health • foxcarolina.com
ESPN announces 2026-27 Inside the NBA presented by Eli Lilly regular season schedule

ESPN today announced its 2026-27 regular season schedule for Inside the NBA presented by Eli Lilly. Produced by TNT Sports from its Atlanta studios, the

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Oct 1 • 12:05 PM EDT • Sports • espnpressroom.com
Sony announces QSSR AI upscaling tech for base PS5 in Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei

The PS5 Pro is no longer the sole domain of AI upscaling tech on console.

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Oct 1 • 12:03 PM EDT • Technology • digitalfoundry.net
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation announces Sports, Democracy, and Civic Health Initiative

The Reimagining Democracy Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation has announced an expanded initiative examining how professional sports and fandom can strengthen civic health and democratic life in the United States. Led by Tova Wang, Director of Research Projects in Democratic Practice at the Ash Center, the Sports, Democracy and Civic Health program brings together scholars, election officials, democracy advocates, professional sports organizations, leagues, athletes, and civic organizations. The initiative will explore how the shared identity and sense of belonging fostered by sports can build trust, reduce polarization, encourage civic participation, and strengthen connections across differences.

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Oct 1 • 12:00 PM EDT • Health • news.harvard.edu
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation announces Sports, Democracy, and Civic Health Initiative

The Reimagining Democracy Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation has announced an expanded initiative examining how professional sports and fandom can strengthen civic health and democratic life in the United States. Led by Tova Wang, Director of Research Projects in Democratic Practice at the Ash Center, the Sports, Democracy and Civic Health program brings together scholars, election officials, democracy advocates, professional sports organizations, leagues, athletes, and civic organizations. The initiative will explore how the shared identity and sense of belonging fostered by sports can build trust, reduce polarization, encourage civic participation, and strengthen connections across differences.

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Oct 1 • 12:00 PM EDT • Sports • news.harvard.edu
The Executive Leadership Council Announces 2026 Scholars, Investing $1.5 Million in the Next Generation of Business Leaders

/PRNewswire/ -- The Executive Leadership Council (ELC) today announced its Class of 2026 Scholars, awarding $1.5 million in scholarships to 100 students from...

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Oct 1 • 12:00 PM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
FOX BUSINESS NETWORK ANNOUNCES NEW WEEKDAY PROGRAMMING LINEUP DEBUTING MONDAY, OCTOBER 12

/PRNewswire/ -- FOX Business Network (FBN) will unveil a new weekday programming lineup beginning on Monday, October 12th, announced FOX News Media President...

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Oct 1 • 11:59 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Hershey Entertainment & Resorts to Open Mellow Mushroom in Hershey in Fall 2027

Hershey Entertainment & Resorts (HE&R) today announced it will bring Mellow Mushroom to Hershey, Pennsylvania, marking the stone-baked pizza brand’s first location in the state. Mellow Mushroom is slated to open in fall 2027 at 337 West Chocolate Avenue, in the heart of downtown Hershey. The 8,000-square-foot restaurant will be owned and operated by HE&R. […]

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Oct 1 • 11:58 AM EDT • Entertainment • pennwatch.org
Committee led by Rep. James Comer seeks brain health study of naval aviators

The House Oversight Committee says the Navy isn’t doing enough to ensure it's protecting the long-term wellbeing of naval aviators.

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Oct 1 • 11:22 AM EDT • Health • spectrumnews1.com
COO Noreen Killen tapped as interim CEO of Mid-America Science Museum

Noreen Killen will step into the role of interim CEO of Mid-America Science Museum, its board of directors announced Thursday.

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Oct 1 • 11:15 AM EDT • Science • hotsr.com
DFL Statement on Premium Hikes: Lisa Demuth's Support for Trump Health Care Cuts Should Concern Every Minnesotan

Lisa Demuth praised Trump’s health care cuts, called them“good for Minnesota,” and said she was “really grateful” for them ST. PAUL — Today, the Minnesota DFL released the following statement after the Minnesota Department of Commerce announced new health care premium increases – with an average increase of 17.4% – which come after the Trump […]

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Oct 1 • 10:52 AM EDT • Health • dfl.org
Jason Jones, Co-Creator of Halo and Destiny and Co-Founder of Bungie, Announces New Studio

Jason Jones, one of the co-founders of Bungie and a co-creator of Halo and Destiny, has announced his new studio, Stone Kite, which will work on projects across various entertainment mediums. The studio's first release is One Zero One, a limited-series comic book based on a manuscript written by Jones.

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Oct 1 • 10:42 AM EDT • Technology • ign.com
Thomson Reuters and KKR complete joint venture for Global Print Business

/PRNewswire/ -- Thomson Reuters Corporation (TSX/Nasdaq: TRI), a global content and technology company, today announced that it has closed on its previously...

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Oct 1 • 10:36 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
How Washington Funded the Politicization of Science

Over the last half-decade, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on projects designed to influence academic policies, both in the sciences and other disciplines. The aim was to foster a progressive conception of social justice in these fields. In pursuit of this end, the foundation earmarked nearly a million dollars for a project titled “Creating Inclusive Scientific Societies through Policies and Practices,” over a million for a project on “Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity,” and over $2 million to foster “racial equity focused departmental change.” Through a public records request, I’ve obtained the proposals and progress reports for dozens of NSF grants designed to promote social justice. Although funding for these grants was eventually halted by the Trump administration, the projects illustrate an important facet of recent higher-education policy. Many of the university policies that promised “social transformation” didn’t arise in a vacuum. They were actively encouraged by outside funders—often by the federal government itself. Subscribe Accreditation—the peer-review process which enables universities to receive federal grants and student loans—has recently become a policy battleground, with accreditors wielding significant power over both universities and academic disciplines. In 2020, when Oregon Health and Science University’s medical school issued an extensive diversity action plan—which promised “consequences” for employees who failed to support “DEI, anti-racism and social justice”—it specifically pointed to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), the medical-school accrediting body, to justify the overhaul. The NSF actively promoted DEI-focused accreditation policies. The proposal for a $1.2 million program on promoting “community engagement” in STEM, which I obtained through a records request, notes that the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology was exploring changes to its criteria “that would incorporate JEDI [justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion].” The proposal promised to “support broader JEDI efforts in the general criteria for engineering.” Another grant funded a conference designed to “identify and share best practices and strategies to integrate IDEA principles in accreditation criteria”—referring to an acronym that stands for “inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.” Scholarly societies have become another flashpoint in debates over higher education. Critics argue that many of these societies, which have the power to shape entire disciplines, have become increasingly politicized. Again, through its giving, the NSF played a role in promoting this politicization. In one million-dollar grant that received funding in 2024, a group of psychologists proposed a series of social-justice reforms to the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. The proposal, which I obtained via a records request, asserts that “[r]edistributing resources (such as moving different people into leadership roles) is not enough” and that the society’s “governance structures do not yet reflect its stated values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Its solution: review and rework the society’s criteria for leadership development, academic awards, conferences, and publications. Adjusting review criteria informed by “intersectionality” designed to fight “epistemic exclusion” is an easy way to introduce de facto ideological litmus tests into the peer-review process. For many of the grants I obtained, such litmus tests seem to be the point. “Academic departments are racialized social systems that produce and sustain the byproducts of systemic racism,” a proposal for a $2.7 million project funded in 2024 asserts, promising to develop “departmentally-focused change efforts that cultivate values, assumptions, and behaviors that advance racial equity.” The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign’s million-dollar “I-ADVANCE” project, which effectively created a small DEI bureaucracy on campus, promised to Embed 28 ADVANCE faculty fellows in STEM departments” to amplify its equity goals. Another $1.2 million project promised to create “faculty online learning communities,” made up of scientists at universities around the country, that would eventually build department-level diversity action plans. “Ultimately,” the proposal asserts, perhaps more perceptively than its authors realized, “both organizational change and intersectionality frameworks deal with power.” Indeed, such grants confer a great deal of power to administrators and scholar-activists, who can even use the mere availability of funding as a tool to advance their causes. That history is worth remembering amid today’s debate over federal involvement in higher education: Washington has been shaping university priorities for years, including by financing efforts to instill progressive ideas about race, gender, and equity into academic institutions—and many of the policies those grants encouraged remain embedded within universities long after the federal money has stopped flowing. John D. Sailer is the director of higher education policy and a senior fellow at Manhattan Institute. Share

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FSU and Tallahassee Memorial finalize FSU Health agreement

Both parties announced they are in agreement on lease and operating agreements and other documents outlining their academic and clinical structure.

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Oct 1 • 10:18 AM EDT • Health • wusf.org
Monthly Strum Club & Potluck Returns To York House Oct. 6

LYNDON — Catamount Arts announces the return of the monthly Strum Club to York Street Meeting House, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 6. The community is invited to a potluck at 5:30

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Oct 1 • 10:00 AM EDT • Entertainment • caledonianrecord.com
RMC Health System officially becomes Baptist Health Calhoun Hospital

ANNISTON, Ala. (WBMA) — A major change in health care is now official for patients and families across Anniston and Northeast Alabama.Orlando Health announced T

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Oct 1 • 9:54 AM EDT • Health • abc3340.com
Rock Entertainment Group and the Cleveland Cavaliers Appoint Galen Davies Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer

Rock Entertainment Group (REG) and the Cleveland Cavaliers today announced Galen Davies as Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

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Oct 1 • 9:39 AM EDT • Entertainment • nba.com
Nerial shuts down after 13 years

Reigns series and Card Shark developer Nerial will shut down after 13 years of operation, the studio announced.

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Oct 1 • 9:38 AM EDT • Technology • gematsu.com
Packers turn to Skyy Moore after Jayden Reed’s season ending injury

The Green Bay Packers will have to move forward without Jayden Reed for the rest of the season, but they already have a short term plan in place. If that approach fails to provide enough production, Green Bay still has other options it can explore later in the year. Packers head coach Matt LaFleur addressed [...]

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Oct 1 • 9:30 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Corgi launches sports and entertainment platform Golden

Corgi Insurance has launched a dedicated sports and entertainment ​platform providing coverage for organisations, events, ‌facilities and businesses that power the sports industry, the insurtech announced on Wednesday.

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Oct 1 • 8:59 AM EDT • Entertainment • theinsurer.com
TGL looking for another successful season opener competing with NFL

TGL will open its third season Sunday, Dec. 27, and go head-to-head with the NFL for the second consecutive season. Teams and time will be announced at a later date.

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Oct 1 • 8:31 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Agassi Sports Entertainment Forms Let's Play, LLC, With Goal of Building a Unified Global Club Network

Jonathan Fornaci Named President of Let's Play, LLCLAS VEGAS, NV / ACCESS Newswire / October 1, 2026 / (OTCID:AASP) ("ASE" or the "Company"), a sports, media, and technology platform focused on the global racket sports ecosystem and built around the iconic brands of Andre Agassi and Stefanie Graf, today announced the formation of Let's Play, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary, as well as the appointment of Jonathan Fornaci as President of Let's Play, LLC. As the newly formed facilities division of A

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Oct 1 • 8:30 AM EDT • Entertainment • finance.yahoo.com
Xtalks Announces its Life Science Webinar Calendar for October 2026

Stay on top of current hot topics through free webinars presented by leading experts in the pharma, biotech, medical device and food industries. Access to all webinars is free, so be sure to register today to save your place! Participate in the discussion and stay relevant in your field!

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Oct 1 • 8:25 AM EDT • Science • finance.yahoo.com
Xtalks Announces its Life Science Webinar Calendar for October 2026

/PRNewswire/ -- Stay on top of current hot topics through free webinars presented by leading experts in the pharma, biotech, medical device and food industries....

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Infosys and Columbia University Launch Strategic Collaboration Across Deep Research to Drive Innovation and Unlock Business Value

/PRNewswire/ -- Infosys (NSE: INFY) (BSE: INFY) (NYSE: INFY), a global leader in AI-first business consulting and technology services, today announced a...

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Palm Health Foundation Welcomes New Leadership

Dr. Roger L. Duncan III and Elisa Cramer join board of trustees; Dr. Paul Rashid appointed to Community Investment Committee SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 – Palm Health Foundation today announced the election of two new trustees and the appointment of a new member to its Community Investment Committee.The new leaders bring decades of combined experience in medicine, mental […]

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Oct 1 • 8:15 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com
Watford sign Krépin Diatta until the end of the season

Watford have announced the signing of free agent Krépin Diatta on a one-year deal.The Senegal international has been out of contract after a five-and-half year stint with Ligue 1 side AS Monaco, who ...

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Oct 1 • 8:15 AM EDT • Sports • sports.yahoo.com
Gusto Simplifies HR and Compliance for Growing Small Businesses

/PRNewswire/ -- Gusto, the leading partner for small businesses, today announced general availability for Gusto Business Compliance, a solution that...

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Oct 1 • 8:15 AM EDT • Business • prnewswire.com
Gov. Stein announces $20M fund to increase health care access in rural North Carolina

A new fund will increase access to health care in rural parts of North Carolina.

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Oct 1 • 8:14 AM EDT • Health • wlos.com
American Cancer Society and Baptist Health Announce Partnership to Expand Cancer Screening Efforts

September 30, 2026 — The American Cancer Society (ACS) is expanding its efforts to improve access to cancer screening and early detection in Southeast Florida through an exclusive partnership with Baptist Health. This effort focuses on breaking down barriers to screening, raising awareness about prevention, and helping more people access recommended cancer screening tests. “This […]

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Oct 1 • 8:08 AM EDT • Health • southfloridahospitalnews.com
Announcers set for Bears vs. Jets Week 4 game

The Chicago Bears will battle the New York Jets in Week 4. See who will be calling the game on FOX this Sunday.

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Time lost to political haggling means lost momentum for research

While it’s not up to universities to set deadlines for EU institutions, “lost time” in the run-up to the launch of the next Horizon Europe would translate into “lost momentum” for universities, according to Dag Rune Olsen, president of the Young European Research Universities Network.“I think it's important to have [the EU budget] in place in order to be able to work on the research funding mechanisms, because we cannot afford to lose more momentum than we already have,” Olsen told Science|Business in an interview in September, just after EU research lobbies gathered in Brussels to push for a €200 billion budget for the next Horizon Europe programme.A funding gap would mean ramping down research activities, said Olsen. “You can do that quite swiftly, that’s not a problem, but ramping up again is much more difficult.”The last-minute push for an ambitious budget, and for a timely adoption of the research programme, comes at a time when the richest EU states have teamed up to call for significant cuts to European Commission’s proposal for the next multiannual budget, which allocates €175 billion for Horizon Europe. At the same gathering of research associations in September, the European Parliament’s budget rapporteur warned that the EU will need to raise its own taxes, otherwise political pressure and tighter national budgets will translate into a limited EU budget with a less ambitious envelope for research. The research sector hopes EU institutions will reach timely agreement on the budget and on Horizon Europe, but progress has been slow. Legislative progress has been delayed, partly because the European Parliament’s budget committee is still haggling over how to apply new EU-wide spending rules, known as the Performance Framework Regulation, and partly because EU governments have yet to agree on the size of the next EU budget. EU research Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva told Science|Business in July that she was hoping for an agreement on Horizon Europe by the end of 2026, but the timelines have been pushed back significantly, with the Parliament now aiming to announce its official position on Horizon Europe only in November. Avoid the funding gapAccording to Olsen, delayed EU funds could prompt universities and researchers to move on and do something else, potentially jeopardising years of work building consortia and collaborations. “If funding is interrupted, the networks fall apart in just a few months,” he said. Olsen also noted that an interruption would affect junior researchers first. PhD students and postdocs are on shorter term contracts and universities risk losing them if funding for EU projects is interrupted. Related articlesEU own resources ‘essential’ for future research budget, says leading MEPParliament haggle over EU-wide spending rules delays vote on Horizon EuropeZaharieva hopes for a Horizon Europe deal in 2026Universities usually have more employees, permanent and short-term staff, than they can cover with national funding, and external funding is essential to keep them all on the payroll. In case of an EU funding gap, “there will be a huge number of people that might end up without any contracts,” he said. Apart from the money issue, Olsen said EU projects forces universities to collaborate more which, in turn, increases the quality of teaching and research. In case of a funding dip, people will look around for opportunities elsewhere, in the private sector or abroad. “And then then you have to recruit again, and it's a tedious business,” said Olsen. “A gap is not a good idea, it's actually a waste of money.”According to Olsen, the difficult political context should encourage universities to make a stronger case for the EU increasing research funding, as universities can deliver on competitiveness, technological sovereignty, security and defence. “The reason why we ask for substantial investments in research is exactly what the Commission, what Europe, the Parliament have been discussing,” he said. “You really need to invest in order to thrive in the longer run.”Focus on the member statesBut EU and national R&D expenditure hasn't kept up with the times. EU governments have failed to reach a spending target set almost 25 years ago. Only six EU countries spend 3% or more of their GDP on R&D. Asked whether universities should put more effort into convincing the governments to ramp up their own spending, but also to support a strong budget for Horizon Europe in the ongoing budget negotiations, Olsen said “the answer is yes.”“We are very actively encouraging our members to talk to their ministries in order to enlighten them about the joint effort,” he said. The network is made up of 25 universities from across Europe, all established in the past 60 years or so.Who will call the shots?Budget and timing issues aside, the Parliament’s research committee has been locked in behind-the-scenes negotiations over the future structure of Horizon Europe, with MEPs disagreeing on the degree to which its collaborative research should be governed by councils of experts.The European Parliament’s lead rapporteur on Horizon Europe wants councils of independent experts to decide on the funding agenda, but the Commission, the Council, and parts of the Parliament disagree. For Olsen, it is normal for politicians to point at the big challenges, but when they start detailing how those challenges should be solved, the endeavour “fails utterly.” He does not necessarily think that “bureaucrats who don’t know the field” would be “much better at it” either. “There has to be a combination” of broad political directions and bottom-up implementation, Olsen said.

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Good science requires much more than evidence

Empiricists believe that scientific theories are true only if they make correct empirical predictions: if we can't verify these predictions, then there is no reason to expect that they tell us anything about reality. However, Professor of Philosophy at King's College David Kyle Johnson argues that this is mistaken. In response to Bas van Fraassen, who has written on this subject for the IAI, he argues that we have many reasons for believing a theory to be true, such as it being parsimonious and having large scope — qualities which have been used throughout the history of science as criteria for judging theories. In 2024, Princeton philosopher Bas van Fraassen wrote a short article for IAI News entitled “Science Does not Describe Reality: The Limits and Benefits of Explanation.” At the time, I was working on two projects (a science book and a Great Course) that, when completed, would (among other things) defend science’s ability to describe reality. I wanted to write a response to van Fraassen, but the projects demanded too much of my attention. But now that those projects are complete, I am in a position to explain the objections to van Fraassen’s thesis. Summarizing van Fraassen’s argumentIn a nutshell, his argument is this: What scientists do is make predictions based on theories and then invite others to test to see whether those predictions are borne out. “If theory T is right, result R should happen in experimental condition C.” Many think that running an experiment that shows that R happens in condition C is proof that theory T is true (and should be believed). But, van Fraassen argues, that R happened in condition C is only a reason to think that R happens in condition C. That’s the only observable, or empirical, result we can actually see, so that is all that we are really justified in believing. (The underlying theory that made that prediction still may or may not be true.) That is why he calls those who accept his position “empiricists.”Before I explain what is wrong with this position, let me explain what it gets right. What van Fraassen Gets RightFirst, a theory correctly predicting the results of an experiment is not, strictly speaking, “proof” that the theory is correct. The basic line of reasoning is this:If the theory T is true, result R should happen. Result R did happen. Thus, theory T is true.In other words:“If T then R. R. Thus, T.”This is a deductively invalid, fallacious mode of reasoning, called “affirming the consequent.” Those premises do not guarantee that the conclusion follows. “If I am in Pennsylvania, then I am in the USA. I am in the USA. Thus, I am in Pennsylvania.” Clearly that argument doesn’t guarantee its conclusion; neither does the above argument.However, science is not a deductive method of reasoning; it is an inductive one. And inductive arguments merely try to raise the probability of their conclusion, not “prove” them for certain. Thus, the fact that an experimental result doesn’t prove a theory is true is irrelevant; it’s not supposed to. That is not what scientific reasoning is about.___If the hypothesis that something exists clearly provides the best explanation for what we can observe, then the belief that it exists is what is rational.___Second, it’s also true that a single experimental result doesn’t provide enough justification to believe that a theory is true. Scientists do not come to a consensus about whether a theory is true by looking at a single experiment; they look at all the evidence to determine where the preponderance of evidence points. The mere fact that I am in the USA raises the probability that I am in Pennsylvania, but not nearly enough to conclude that I am in Pennsylvania. However, if I am also regularly encountering people wearing Eagles and Phillies hats and seeing advertisements for Founding Father tours, I probably am. In the same way, a theory successfully predicting the outcome of one experiment is not enough to conclude that it is true; but if a theory makes a wide variety of predictions that are all vindicated by multiple experiments, performed by many different groups and people, all actively trying to prove the theory false (which is what good scientific experiments are designed to do)—that is a good reason to conclude that the theory is true. In other words, if you repeatedly try to prove something false but can’t, that is a very good indication that it isn’t. The problem of underdeterminationIn reply, those whom van Fraassen calls “empiricists” often point to the “problem of underdetermination.” For any given theory that makes successful predictions about what happens in experimental conditions, there are countless other possible theories that make exactly the same predictions—and since they do, the experimental evidence in question is just as much reason to accept any of those theories as it is to accept our original one. Thus, the argument goes, we have no way of knowing whether our original theory is true, or one of the other “predictively equivalent” theories is true. SUGGESTED VIEWING How Occam's Razor changed the world With Johnjoe McFadden As an example of underdetermination, philosophers often offer this example. The evidence of fossils seems to provide reason to conclude that the universe is quite old; ancient fossils are what the “ancient universe” hypothesis predicts. But it’s also possible that God created an ancient-looking universe 200 years ago, complete with a “fake” fossil record for us to find, to make it look old. The existence of fossils is what that theory predicts too. So, the argument goes, the fossil record can’t be used as evidence that the universe is ancient; the fossil record supports the “200-year-old ancient-looking universe” theory just as much. The problem of underdetermination points out that, for any theory with supporting evidence, we could invent another completely different theory that predicts exactly the same evidence, and thus undermine that evidence’s ability to support the original theory.But this “argument from underdetermination” betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what scientific reasoning is and how it works. To explain, let me use another rather strange (but very real and commonly discussed) philosophical thought experiment called “The Grue Problem.” The “Grue” ProblemSuppose I want to know what color emeralds are, so I observe a few, see that they all appear green, and form the theory that “all emeralds are green.” I thus predict that the next 100 emeralds I find will also appear to be green. And let’s say that happens, and so I thus conclude that my theory that all emeralds are green is true. Now, one might rightly point out that I don’t know for sure that all emeralds are green—I have not seen them all. Maybe some I haven’t found yet are blue. Fair enough. After all, we used to think that all swans were white, until we found some black ones. But let’s say that I go on a quest and collect every emerald in the universe—and, for the sake of the argument, let’s say I can do this, and can even know that I have every one of them. So, I collect them all, look at them all, and verify that they all appear green. Can’t I now rightly conclude that all emeralds are green?Inspired by the problem of underdetermination, a friend might argue that I cannot.Sure, they all appear green now—but there could be another kind of color called “grue.” Something is grue if it is green up to a certain point in time, but then spontaneously turns blue. And there could be an infinite number of “shades” of grue. Something that is one shade of grue will turn blue at noon today, but something that is another shade of grue will turn blue at noon tomorrow, etc. So yes, the emeralds appear green now; and since they haven’t turned blue yet, they are not some “past” shade of grue. But they might be some “future” shade of grue (e.g., they may turn blue at noon tomorrow). And since all future shades of grue are consistent with “being green up to this point in time,” the evidence you have is completely consistent with the notion that all emeralds are some future shade of grue, rather than green. Indeed, that they would appear green until now is what the “some future shade of grue” hypothesis predicts. So, we have just as much reason to conclude that all emeralds are some shade of grue as we do to conclude that they are green.You’re probably thinking “It’s not equally possible that the emeralds are grue; they are obviously green.” You are right! But explaining why your instinctive reaction to my friend’s argument is correct will help inform why van Fraassen’s “empiricist” is wrong and science actually does describe reality.The main mistake my friend makes is in thinking that the “empirical evidence” (of all the emeralds appearing green) is (or even should be) all I am using to draw the conclusion that all emeralds are green. It is not. I am also considering known facts about how colors typically work; things don’t usually change color, and when they do, they don’t do so suddenly, without cause, and all at once. So, even though the simple evidence of the emeralds all appearing green up to this point is consistent with them being some future shade of grue—that is even what the grue hypothesis “predicts”—it is still exceedingly unlikely that they are. The hypothesis that they are green is much more likely. Understanding science refutes the problem of underdetermination The misunderstanding about science that the “empiricist” pointing to “the problem of underdetermination” makes is similar to the one that my friend made. Science is not just about considering experimental evidence; in fact, it’s not even just about considering empirical evidence. As Ernan McMullin and many other philosophers of science have pointed out, the inference that makes science is “inference to the best explanation” (sometimes called “abduction” or “retroduction” by McMullin). While, depending on the circumstances, scientists use many different kinds of reasoning, science as a whole is, simply put, the process of considering multiple competing explanations and comparing them to certain criteria—explanatory criteria (the kinds of things explanations must be and do, by definition, to be a good explanation)—to see which explanation is the best.And these criteria do not deal only with empirical results. Yes, successful predictions raise the probability of a hypothesis, but it’s also the case that the more new assumptions a theory makes, the less likely it is to be true; every new assumption presents an opportunity for the theory to be false. (The fewer assumptions a theory makes, the simpler or “more parsimonious” it is said to be.) Likewise, the more existing evidence a theory contradicts, the less likely it is, because in order for a theory to be true, every piece of evidence it contradicts has to be somehow faulty. (The fewer established theories a new theory contradicts, the more “conservative” it is said to be.) And, obviously, the more something explains, the better explanation it is. (This is called having “scope.”) If a theory raises unanswerable questions, it’s not expanding our understanding, and thus is not wide-scoping. Scientists consider all these things when deciding which theory to accept, because the theory that adheres best to these explanatory criteria is most likely to be true.___the mere fact that a theory’s predictive success is why it “sticks around” or “becomes accepted” in the scientific community is not a reason to be skeptical about its truth.___The reason the grue hypothesis is no good is because it invents an entirely new kind of color—not just a new shade, but an entirely different category of color (a different way colors work)—and thus is not parsimonious. It raises unanswerable questions about how and why emeralds would just spontaneously change from green to blue (and thus does not have wide scope). And it contradicts what is already well established about how color works (and thus is unconservative).The theories that the problem of underdetermination points to do the same thing. Yes, the theory that God created an “ancient-looking universe” (complete with an ancient-looking fossil record) two hundred years ago is also consistent with the empirical evidence (of a fossil record) that presently exists; but that theory is monumentally unparsimonious (it requires many extra assumptions about infinite entities) and not wide-scoping (it raises unanswerable questions about why God would do such a thing). So, I can rationally conclude that it is false.Indeed, the history of science includes many examples of theories that were rejected because they lacked parsimony and/or scope, even before their falsity (and the truth of their competing theory) was confirmed by observation. As I point out in my book, geocentrism was rejected by the scientific community because it lacked parsimony, almost 200 years before the observation of parallax confirmed that the Earth moves around the sun. And the continuum theory of matter was completely rejected by 1860, because it couldn’t explain chemical reactions or organize matter into a periodic table, even though the experiments that eventually confirmed atomic theory weren’t even proposed until the 1870s. Solving the best of a bad lot problemIn response, the “empiricists” are likely to object, this time pointing to the “best of a bad lot” problem. “We have no reason to conclude that an explanation that has been shown to be better than others is true because we have no guarantee that the true theory was among those that we were considering.” If you have a “lot” (a collection) of poor explanations, even the best one is not true.The responses to this problem, however, are numerous. Peter Lipton argues that the set of hypotheses that scientists consider are not just randomly selected and thus unlikely to contain a theory that is true; they use existing knowledge to home in on what is most likely to be true. A doctor trying to explain abdominal pain is not going to bother wondering whether demons are causing it; they are going to stick with things like appendicitis and kidney stones, because they are most likely. Further, despite its name, inference to the best explanation is not just the process of comparing hypotheses and accepting the best one; we also want one that is a good explanation in its own right. If it’s not, we are going to keep looking until we find an explanation that is. And while that process does not guarantee that we will come across the exact truth, it’s very likely that the theory that emerges as the best will be at least approximately true, and thus we will be justified in believing it. And lastly, as I point out in my book, although many theories not based in scientific evidence (like geocentrism and continuum theory) have been completely overturned, science almost always progresses by the refinement of scientifically established theories—not their replacement. (Although our sun is not the center of the universe, heliocentrism was our first step in understanding the Earth’s true place in the universe.) So even if a theory we accept today may not be completely right, accepting it is a step on the journey toward the complete truth. The example of atomic theoryNow, it’s worth pointing out that most empiricists are not skeptical of all scientific theories; they are only skeptical of the ones that hypothesize the existence of “unobservables.” It’s not like they think that round Earth, heliocentrism, and germ theory are just useful (but untrue) “instruments” for making predictions about how to most efficiently navigate the seas, predict planetary motion, and treat diseases. They admit that the Earth actually is round, that the planets revolve around the sun, and that germs exist and cause disease. These facts and entities can be observed; the theories that suggest they exist are true. It’s only when theories start hypothesizing the existence of unobservables—like electrons, or quantum fields—that can’t be observed directly, that we should start doubting the theories’ truth. And to be fair to van Fraassen, in this published work, he doesn’t really say that we should doubt the truth of such theories. Only that scientific reasoning does not rationally force us to accept them as true. Skepticism, or agnosticism, he argues, is warranted. SUGGESTED READING Science is based in metaphor By Andrew Reynolds But the history of atomic theory throws a monkey wrench into that argument. Atoms used to be unobservable; again, scientists first accepted the theory that they exist because it had such grandiose explanatory power. But then atoms were seen with electron microscopes. They thus moved into the category of the observable. But this didn’t substantially change anything about what scientists were justified in believing; it certainly didn’t change any “atomic skeptics’” minds. It just confirmed what everyone already knew! If the hypothesis that something exists clearly provides the best explanation for what we can observe, then the belief that it exists is what is rational. The fact that the thing itself is not technically observable does not make doubting its existence rational.What’s more, the atoms were seen with an electron microscope. But electrons are themselves unobservable. How can an electron microscope reveal an atom if electrons are not real? This leads us to what is famously known as Hilary Putnam’s “miracle argument.” It’s (not) a miraclePhilosopher Hilary Putnam’s miracle argument is somewhat famous. Basically, he argued that a scientific theory being able to repeatedly make successful predictions—even about unobservables—without being at least approximately true would require a “miracle.” In other words, it would be such an improbable occurrence that it could not rationally be believed—the better explanation for why scientific theories about unobservables make the right predictions is because the unobservable entities and structures they hypothesize exist.Van Fraassen has addressed this argument. Indeed, in his original article, where he references Alison Gopnik’s point about orgasms not being “necessary for procreation” even though the desire for orgasm “drives the creation of progeny,” he is pointing to his own argument about how organisms are not naturally selected by evolution to get true beliefs; to the extent that belief-forming processes are selected for, the ones that are selected are the ones that are useful for survival—not the ones that produce true beliefs. In the same way, van Fraassen argues, scientific theories are accepted, not because they are true, but because they aren’t falsified; they make successful predictions; that’s what makes them “stick around.” So, the fact that they make successful predictions (and thus became accepted) is not a reason to think they are true.This argument is similar to C. S. Lewis’s “argument from reason,” which he used to argue against evolution: “The truth of evolution undercuts our ability to know that it is true.” Lewis’ argument famously failed; Elizabeth Anscombe, by Lewis’s own admission, demolished Lewis in a debate on the topic, and I have explained elsewhere why modified versions of the argument fail as well. In short, it’s because it fails to recognize that a belief-forming process can make an organism more likely to survive because it reliably produces true beliefs. It is therefore not the case that beliefs generated by naturally selected belief-forming processes are automatically false or unjustified.In the same way, the reason a theory “sticks around” could be because it’s not falsified, because it “makes correct predictions.” But the reason it makes correct predictions is most likely because it is true. (In pointing this out, I am echoing the arguments of Musgrave, Lipton, Psillos, and Kitcher, who refuted van Fraassen’s argument and analogy long before his 2024 article.) It would be a huge coincidence that it could do so without being true. And that is the point of Putnam’s miracle argument. Thus, contrary to van Fraassen’s suggestion, the mere fact that a theory’s predictive success is why it “sticks around” or “becomes accepted” in the scientific community is not a reason to be skeptical about its truth. ConclusionLet me close by saying something about the fact that empiricists don’t doubt the truth of all scientific theories, just the ones that hypothesize unobservables. In today’s society, this theory is dangerous to espouse publicly. The nuance between being skeptical about all of science, and just the highly technical theories about unobservables, is guaranteed to be lost to the average reader. And there is so much unjustified skepticism and doubt about the findings of science and experts that a headline like “Science Does Not Describe Reality” could easily fuel the anti-science movement, worsen climate change denial and cause the next pandemic.This is why I believe it was important to still respond to van Fraassen’s article, a full two years after he wrote it. Not only, as I have argued, does it represent a philosophically inaccurate view of how scientific reasoning works and what scientific reasoning can do, but it is a dangerous view to boot. It should thus be rejected.

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Cedar Crossing Casino & Entertainment Center will open its Compass Center with an interactive space exploration exhibit and has added 16 concerts and comedy shows to its entertainment schedule, casino leaders announced Sept. 30. “The property has truly come alive over the past several weeks,” said Kim Pang, executive vice president and general manager at […]

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Sep 30 • 7:43 PM EDT • Entertainment • corridorbusiness.com
There's a debate over debates in Mass. politics this election season

In 2026, debates are becoming a point of contention. Republican challengers are chastising Democratic incumbents for not debating enough, or at all.

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Sep 30 • 7:36 PM EDT • Politics • nbcboston.com
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