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Academic Freedom — Sweeping Up the Shards

Here is an article, “The New Evolution Deniers,” by evolutionary biologist Colin Wright at Penn State. Read More ›
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Behe Uncensored: A University-Level Course on Intelligent Design, Here Now! 

The lectures are accompanied by quizzes to help track your progress, perfect for everyone from high school students up through college professors! Read More ›
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New Model Legislative Resolution on University Student Academic Freedom in Science

From otherwise very impassioned and articulate commentators, the silence on this subject is remarkable. Truly, it’s a scandal. Read More ›
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Suppressing Science at Brown University

Career anxiety is exactly how heterodox thought is policed and stamped out in the academic world. Read More ›
Will Universities Embrace Freedom, or Censor Ideas?

Free Speech or “Better Speech”?

What Denyse O’Leary calls “well-intentioned nonsense” will protect no one that needs protecting. Read More ›
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Introducing the New “Conspiracism” Canard

Here’s a fresh twist on efforts to evade a debate about design in nature by associating ID with tendencies in thought that many people find disreputable. Read More ›
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Chaffee, Sewell: “Evolution — More Certain Than Gravity?”

“Imagine two science teachers. Mr. Smith expects students simply to memorize and correctly regurgitate.” Read More ›
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Evolution and the “I Won’t Debate” Tactic

If the future of science is really at risk, then surely not debating evolution is folly.  Read More ›
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In Wisconsin, a Win for Academic Freedom

A few aspects of this catch my attention as pertinent to  our concerns here. Read More ›
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Here, Evidently, Is How They Teach Evolution at Louisiana State University

This has got to be one of the dopiest, most simple-minded presentations of the subject that I’ve seen. Read More ›

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