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Muncie Star Press Interviews Signers of Our Petition in Support of Ball State University Physicist Eric Hedin

As you know, Hedin is under attack by atheist flak and University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne and his friends at the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Read More ›

Is Intelligent Design Too "Transgressive" to Tolerate? More on the Investigation of Ball State University Physicist Eric Hedin

In deciding the fate of a vulnerable, untenured scientist, Professor Juli Eflin may be the wild card. Read More ›

More than 7,000 Urge Ball State University to Protect Academic Freedom of Professor Eric Hedin

Discovery Institute has delivered a petition to Ball State University from more than 7,000 people, including more than 1,200 residents of Indiana, urging the university to defend the academic freedom of assistant professor of physics Eric Hedin. Read More ›
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A Tale of Two Professors

In 2004, the academic freedom of another Ball State University professor was challenged by an outside interest group. But university officials treated that professor in a dramatically different way from how they are treating Professor Eric Hedin. Why? Read More ›

Questions Raised about Impartiality of Panel Reviewing Ball State University Professor’s Course

Three of the four appointed panelists are publicly connected to groups explicitly opposed to intelligent design. Read More ›

Today on the Michael Medved Show, Jay Richards Will Discuss Eric Hedin, Guillermo Gonzalez Academic Persecution Cases

Ball State University has hired an actual ID advocate, astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez, who was previously the victim of discrimination for his views on ID. Read More ›

In the Ball State University/Eric Hedin Affair, Jerry Coyne Thinks He’s Got the Smoking Gun

I think Hindus would agree that no "Hindu monkey god" can claim responsibility for sparking the Big Bang and the rest of the history of the cosmos and of life. Read More ›

Bullying Campaign Against Ball State’s Eric Hedin Goes On, Now with Enhanced Phony First Amendment Argument

Jerry Coyne would like to see teaching about ID in public university sciences classrooms made illegal on Constitutional grounds. Read More ›

Today on the Medved Show, Discovery Institute’s Casey Luskin Debates Activist Zack Kopplin on Academic Freedom

The freedom to teach hangs in the balance as state legislatures consider laws that would protect teachers if they tell students about scientific critiques of Darwin's theory. Read More ›

At Ball State, for Teaching About Intelligent Design, Physicist Eric Hedin Is Still Left Twisting in the Wind

What I find so scary about Jerry Coyne's role in the intimidation campaign against Dr. Hedin is not his bias -- we're all biased -- but his brazen, shameless ignorance. Read More ›

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