Evolution is like a really good butler or valet, who's already standing there with a favorite beverage for you just at the moment you realize you're thirsty.
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Big Science devours billions of dollars a year while the productions of this vast government industry seem startlingly and increasingly barren of significance.
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Scientists are in a sense just like journalists. We -- I speak for the latter -- do not like to report that we do not know why or how something happened.
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"Developed by the psychologist Irving Janis in the early 1970s, the groupthink theory describes how a tight-knit, smart and well-informed group can suppress dissent and make disastrous decisions because of the pressure to agree."
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We have heard reports from prospective grad students in biology who are being asked during the interview process whether they have an opinion about intelligent design.
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As an explanation of musical genius, this would be bewilderingly silly. Yet it's the basic summary of a genre of breathless news items about the origins of life on earth.
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