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Photo: Lehigh University biochemist Michael Behe at the launch of Discovery Institute-Mackenzie at Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo, Brazil, 2017.

Michael Behe’s Darwin Devolves — When You’re Ready to Think for Yourself

The idea that scientists are like tribal elders, to be respected and never questioned, much less smirked at (God forbid), is one possible perspective. Read More ›
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Darwin Doubting Playwright Matt Chait Returns to the Hollywood Stage

Chait writes smart, concise dialogue on these subjects, and seems to have learned more than a thing or two from biologist Scott Turner’s recent book, Purpose and Desire. Read More ›
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In Unbelievable, Mike Keas Highlights Myths and Realities of Anti-Science Persecution

The point of Dr. Keas’s book is historical but also very timely: Scientists who challenge materialism today face discrimination as heretics that squelches their research and teaching. Read More ›
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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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Photo credit: University of Chicago’s Hull Library, by Josh Evnin, via Flickr(cropped).

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?
Photo: Sculpture of Wilfrid Laurier, campus of Wilfrid Laurier University, by Laurel L. Russwurm [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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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