Tag: academic freedom

^{Type
post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic credentials, academic freedom, Claire Lehmann, commenters, creationists, Darwin-skeptics, David Hullender, Elsevier journals, engineered systems, evolution, evolutionary biologists, harassment, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jonathan McLatchie, Olen Brown, peer review, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, pseudosciences, Quillette, Richard Dawkins, Scopes trial, University of California, University of Chicago, University of Missouri, University of Texas at Arlington, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne and His Readers Attack Academic Freedom, and Call for More Intolerance

_{Casey Luskin
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

10}

It became clear that Coyne’s whole point was to gin up harassment of the journal so they won’t publish critiques of evolution in the future. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Coppedge

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, ACLU, Bible, Bolton Davidheiser, Casey Luskin, censorship, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, Dayton, Democrats, Dudley Field Malone, Edward Larson, freedom, fundamentalists, Haeckel’s embryos, history, Holocaust, Horatio Hockett Newman, Human Zoos, Icons of Evolution, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, Johns Hopkins University, Jonathan Wells, March of Man, Maynard Metcalf, Phillip E. Johnson, Scopes trial, Social Darwinism, Summer for the Gods, Supreme Court, Teaching Company, The Daily Wire, University of Chicago, William Jennings Bryan, Zombie Science}

Inhibit the Mind? Scopes Revisionism Can End

_{David Coppedge
July 15, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

10}

The centennial of the Scopes Trial is a good time to set the record straight. Here’s a way to turn the tables on the stereotype. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, academic freedom, Casey Luskin, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinists, Evolution News, evolutionary biologists, films, Hollywood, ID research program, Inherit the Wind, intelligent design, Modern Synthesis, Neo-Darwinism, persecution, scientific progress, Scopes effect, Scopes Monkey Trial}

Despite Scopes Effect, Intelligent Design Flourishes

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 5, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

2}

As Casey Luskin notes, the intelligent design research project has gone from strength to strength in the last three decades. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, COVID-19, epidemiologists, Francis Collins, free speech, health policy, Honestly, Jay Bhattacharya, Khaleda Rahman, Lawrence D. Bobo, lockdowns, Maya Sulkin, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Heath, Newsweek, Real Clear Politics, Scott Atlas, The Free Press, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington Post, Wesley J. Smith}

At NIH, Bhattacharya Wants to Restore Open Inquiry

_{Science and Culture
April 7, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Scientific Freedom

5}

Restoring open discussion is certainly worth a try. Science advances more from doubt than from certainty. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, anatomy, Ball State University, bigotry, blasphemy, cancel culture, Censor of the Year Award, censorship, Center for Science and Culture, Colin Wright, evolution, freedom from religion foundation, gender, heresy, intelligent design, J.K. Rowling, Jerry Coyne, Lawrence Krauss, locker rooms, Ohio, realism, restrooms, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, surgery, The Boundaries of Science, transgenderism, University of Chicago, Wall Street Journal, woke ideology}

Standing O for Jerry Coyne?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 31, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

6}

Using his power and the prestige brand of his university to bully someone like Eric Hedin was nothing less than loathsome. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, academic freedom, American Founders, closed system, Darwinian evolution, Declaration of Independence, inalienable rights, individual rights, intelligent design, liberty, living systems, materialistic processes, rights, secularism, separation of church and state, tolerance, universe, university, worldview}

Not Just a Scientific Theory, Intelligent Design Is a Pillar of Academic Freedom

_{Eric Hedin
March 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Science Education

5}

The American Founders established government with religious liberty by separating the State and the Church without separating reason from revelation. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 12, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, accessibility, activism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), federal employees, Free Science, free speech, government, Great Barrington Declaration, ideology, Jay Bhattacharya, lockdowns, Martin Kulldorrff, minoritized, misinformation, National Institutes of Health, Politics, protestors, protests, research funding, scientism, scientocracy, Stand Up for Science, Sunetra Gupta, universities}

Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 12, 2025

Bioethics, Scientific Freedom

5}

“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 22, 2024

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, american association of university professors, Chronicle of Higher Education, conflict, free speech, Hamas, ideas, intellectual freedom, Israel, petition, scholars, tenure, The College Fix, universities}

Scholars Association Embraces Academic Boycotts: Intellectual Freedom Will Be the Victim

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 22, 2024

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

7}

The intellectual boycott is an academic system’s usual defense against any ideas it can’t handle. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
William A. Dembski

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Scientific Freedom
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, academic freedom, alchemy, commitment, ether, faith, faith and science, hypocrisy, Institute for Advanced Study, intellectual humility, obedience, overconfidence, phlogiston, phrenology, Roman Catholic, sacred cows, science and religion, simplicity, Swarthmore College, theory}

Science, Faith, and Einstein

_{William A. Dembski
June 20, 2024

Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Scientific Freedom, Scientific Trustworthiness

6}

Einstein’s dictum about thinking for yourself therefore holds for faith as much as for science. It must come before commitment and obedience. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 20, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, atheism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Ball State University, Brandeis University, Censor of the Year, Colin Wright, David Klinghoffer, Discovery Institute, Eric Hedin, evolutionary theory, Free Science, free speech, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Jews, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, The Boundaries of Science, The College Fix, Wall Street Journal, William A. Dembski, wokeness}

When Materialism Turns on Its Own

_{Jonathan Witt
June 20, 2024

Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

9}

A cadre of atheist scientists, including Lawrence Krauss and Jerry Coyne, have long worked to silence and deplatform scientists who hold to the theory of ID. Read More ›