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Joshua Youngkin

Born on the Same Day, What if Lincoln and Darwin Met?

For the body politic, policies that take natural selection seriously will increasingly restrain human life and freedom in the face of competing animal and ecological interests. Read More ›

The Media Passes Hasty Legal Judgment on 2 of 3 New Science Education Bills

Reporters should be reticent to fix the legally significant label "creationist" to nascent science education bills. Read More ›
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Galileo Galilei facing Roman inquisition, abandoning his views on heliocentricism. Reenactment of an important historical moment shaping the course of science and religion.
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Please, NASA, No More Galileos!

The David Coppedge case stands as an egregious instance of intolerance toward scientific dissent, so much so that it merits your attention and action, for Caltech runs JPL under contract with NASA, a government agency, and is thus indirectly accountable to the electorate, by which I mean you, dear reader. Read More ›

The 20th Anniversary of Darwin on Trial

Darwin-as-philosophy inspired sociological jurisprudence and legal realism before mixing in the late 20th century with dissident politics and continental critical theory to form the intellectual foundation of the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement. Read More ›

Darwingate: What You Get When the Los Angeles Times “Covers” a Cover-Up

This isn't the first time that a bunch of government actors have colluded to cover their own wrongdoing. Read More ›

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