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C. W. Howell Scrubs Fabricated Behe Quote from Dissertation Without Coming Clean

The ethical thing would have been to apologize and admit the seriousness of his mistake. His smoking gun, after all, wasn’t just a dud. It was imaginary. Read More ›
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Duke University to Remove Access to C. W. Howell’s Dissertation with Fabrication

On August 27, I wrote to Duke's Office of Counsel, informing them that Howell’s book has been withdrawn by its publisher because of the fabricated quote. Read More ›
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NYU Press Book Makes Fake Behe Quote a Linchpin of Its Case Against Intelligent Design

It’s quite a chain of errors, from the ACLU to Judge Jones to C. W. Howell. Each makes it worse than the one before. Read More ›
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Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Read More ›
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NYU Press Pulls Anti-ID Book with Fabricated Quote from Michael Behe

“What happened is deeply ironic. This book was touted by the publisher as showing how ID's skepticism of Darwinism contributed to a ‘post-truth’ society." Read More ›
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Answering Dave Farina on the Vpu Protein in HIV-1

Farina’s dismissal of this important point suggests that he does not understand the subject of population genetics very well. Read More ›
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Debating Intelligent Design, Critic Keith Fox Is Still Stuck on Old Talking Points

With DNA replication, it is unclear what other systems any of the components might be co-opted from. Read More ›
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On Evolution, Here Is What We Can Believe with High Confidence

In a pair of YouTube videos, Rice University chemist James Tour and I reviewed more than ten recent studies of experimental evolution. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute-Funded Paper in Scientific Reports Applies an ID-Inspired Approach to Cancer

Humans have bioengineered many drugs to fight cancer. We’ve all seen this: Many cancer drugs may work but they often have devastating side effects. Read More ›
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Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›

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