Response to commentators on the blind spot: why science cannot ignore human experience

Situational Blindness

This response may be read as a standalone piece, though it will of course be more meaningful if you read the original article first.

How Does A Blind Model See The Earth? — LessWrong

Sometimes I'm saddened remembering that we've viewed the Earth from space. We can see it all with certainty: there's no northwest passage to search f…

Guest post: If you’re going to critique science, be scientific about it

Loren K. Mell Editor’s note: This post responds to a Feb. 13 article in The Atlantic, “The Scientific Literature Can’t Save Us Now,” written by Retraction Watch cofounders Adam Marcus and Ivan Oran…

People who are blind from birth never develop schizophrenia – what this tells us about the psychiatric condition

Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of medicine’s most baffling conditions.

The mistake we all make... and the simple experiment that reveals it

Your answer reveals how you see the world – and the common error that hampers our decision making. In an extract from his new book, psychologist Richard Nisbett reveals the ‘mindware’ to help us think smarter

People Who Can't Visualize Anything Are Challenging a 300-Year-Old Theory of Thought

Mental imagery might not be as central to complex human thought as we believed, philosophers say.

The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth

People feel they understand complex phenomena with far greater precision, coherence, and depth than they really do; they are subject to an illusion—an illusion of explanatory depth. The illusion is f...

The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker

In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding—and at ...

Andreas De Block on Twitter / X

It took Nature three years to publish this rebuttal, which clearly demonstrates the fundamental flaws in the original paper. In the meantime, the paper's conclusions influenced scientific debate and policy decisions. Such delays in correcting flawed research do real damage. https://t.co/QI3Ei3PE70— Andreas De Block (@DeblockBlock) August 13, 2026

Birth of the Bionic Eye

In 2012, electrodes will bring eyesight to the blind

Breaking the silence

Research on science communication has largely focused on teaching scientists how to describe their studies in ways that interest the public while deepening their understanding of scientific exploration. However, there is another, often overlooked side to science communication—how scientists respond when questions arise about the integrity of their research. Often, the tendency has been to stay silent and wait for any controversy to pass or be resolved in professional forums. But in an age of growing, intense attacks on science, silence can be detrimental to both public trust and the careers of scientists who are under scrutiny. For better or worse, journalists, social media professionals, and the public may take a response of “no comment” as a concession that the critics are correct, so forthright communication about research questions is more urgent than ever.

I'm becoming AI-blind - Rafal Cymerys

Recently I've been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I'm trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It feels like I'm reading it, but I'm unable to focus on its content. I sat down to analyze these situations and realized they all have a common denominator: the documents all show a strong trace to AI. My brain learned to quickly spot signs of AI-generated content, at least the low effort one, and it now ignores it and moves on without thinking much about it.