Denyse O’Leary

Denyse O’Leary is a freelance journalist based in Victoria, Canada. Specializing in faith and science issues, she is co-author, with neuroscientist Mario Beauregard, of The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist's Case for the Existence of the Soul; and with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor of The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul (Worthy, 2025). She received her degree in honors English language and literature.

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What Happens When Science Degenerates Into a Spoils System?

_{Chemistry prof Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2025}

Krylov also calls out the practices of choosing citations on the basis of social justice merit instead of relevance and of censoring awkward findings.

Wikipedia Qualifies Its “Pseudoscience” Label re Design in Nature

_{Not only that but newly launched Grokipedia’s entry seems to be written to actually inform the reader rather than to enlist the reader against the topic}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 28, 2025}

On ID, it sounds like Grokipedia, unlike Wikipedia, follows the time-honored rule of letting people explain themselves and saving the commentary for later.

On Intelligent Design, Wikipedia Hedges, While Grokipedia Tells (Whoa!) the Truth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 28, 2025}

There is still plenty of time for Grok to be infiltrated by all kinds of bias and it would certainly be wise to keep checking back.

Wall Street Journal Takes On Science and the Existence of God

_{In an interview, first author of the new book out of France, Michel-Yves Bolloré, tells a WSJ editor, “We are now in a century where science is the best ally of God.” That’s news}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 26, 2025}

With Bolloré and Bonnassies’ work, reality-based thinking is coming back. And the reality is that the universe offers much evidence for God.

Look Who’s Talking About New Book on Science and God

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2025}

When religion wanes, what replaces it is not the calm skies of noble atheism but the snakepit of increasingly unmoored private truth.

Will Reliance on AI Mean a Vast Drop in New Knowledge Production?

_{Dependence on AI assistants, for example, was found to greatly reduce discussion among peers, where new ideas are offered and evaluated}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2025}

Ultimately, the AI knowledge system will be enriched or impoverished by human decisions, not by discovering a superintelligence.

Materialism’s Band-Aid, “Emergence” Is Bad Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 25, 2025}

The idea is that some properties of systems emerge only after a certain level of complexity is reached.

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2025}

I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so.

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

_{It has often been treated with fear and exclusion. Maybe there is more hope now}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 22, 2025}

Dementia is not “inevitable,” in the sense that it would happen no matter what else is in play. Nature is rarely like that. Decisions matter.

In Study of Human Psychology, the Power of “Maybe”

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 22, 2025}

This is not science and is not a good look for a psychology that purports to have some relationship with science.

How a Biologist Became a Casualty in the War on Reality

_{If evolutionary biology’s core belief is that everything human can be reduced to animal impulses, truth is merely a survival strategy. But nonsense proved more successful}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 21, 2025}

Carole Hooven discovered that, where the sex binary nature of humans is concerned, the new elite at Harvard and The Lancet thrive on nonsense. But she can’t.

In the War on Reality, a Biologist Became a Casualty

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 21, 2025}

Enough people may still believe that the human being is not just an animal and there is such a thing as truth.

At Psych Mag: How Your Brain Allegedly Invented God…

_{Not THIS again, you say? Yes, this again. Straight out of the 1970s, as if the last fifty years of research never happened}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 20, 2025}

One effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.

Charles Murray and Others Rediscovering God: No Accident of Timing

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 19, 2025}

Not what you heard? Well, if you heard something else from traditional media, maybe those media aren’t so reliable any more.

Change: Charles Murray Finds Out That He Does Need God

_{This growing interest in religion is a trend. It is all coming too close together to just be an accident of timing.}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 17, 2025}

Surprised? Joel Kotkin points out that the conventional picture many people have of the religious vs. the non-religious population is gravely distorted.

On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Went Out the Window

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 16, 2025}

All of this decay when atheists were considered to be the primary spokespeople for science. And they have yielded the floor to irrational forces.

Researchers Ask: What Happens After a Near-Death Experience?

_{The experiences themselves tend to attract attention and study. But how do they really change lives?}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2025}

NDEs do change lives but, according to a recent study, NDErs often require counseling and not many counselors are equipped to support them.

On Atheism’s Watch, Rationality in Science Flew Out the Window

_{Why did atheists, in charge of science during the last few decades, yield the floor to irrational forces?}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2025}

Science itself is being deplatformed by Woke relativism, developed by the very people who found atheists quite thought-provoking and fashionable.

The Search for Extraterrestrials: Keeping Hope Alive

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 15, 2025}

The question looms: How much can science avoid facts while retaining the character of science?

Why Materialism Will Probably Drift Into Panpsychism

_{I predict that “Nothing is conscious” will be superseded, among fashionable thinkers, by “Everything is conscious.”}_{Denyse O'Leary
October 13, 2025}

Materialists will try to interpret the workings of the brain as one aspect of consciousness that is a natural part of the material universe.