Tag: First Amendment

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Author
Douglas Groothuis

Date
March 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Political Science
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, authoritarianism, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, biographers, Blaise Pascal, Buddhism, C. S. Lewis, caste system, Christian philosophy, Christianity, Declaration of Independence, Deists, Elon Musk, endowed by our creator, evolution, First Amendment, Founders, Founding, French Revolution, guillotine, happiness, Hinduism, humans, image of God, infidels, Islam, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, Leonardo da Vinci, philosophy, sanctity of life, Second Treatise on Government, social contract theory, St. Augustine, Steve Jobs, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, The Social Contract, theism, theology, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Jefferson, Unitarians, universal human rights, utopianism, Walter Isaacson, worldview}

In Explicating the “Greatest Sentence,” New Book Falls Short

_{Douglas Groothuis
March 26, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science

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No naturalistic account of human life, rooted in Darwin’s purposeless evolution, has reason to account humans as special in nature. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 3, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, First Amendment, free speech, gender-affirming care, government, medicine, New York Times, public health, public policy, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, Washington DC}

The Wrong Tool to Fix Woke Science Journals

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 3, 2025

Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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The government has no business pressuring medical journals about their content — no matter how biased. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, animal experiments, animals, chimpanzees, Edward Taub, elephants, First Amendment, illnesses, Ingrid Newkirk, journalists, National Institutes of Health, Nonhuman Rights Project, persons, PETA, Silver Spring Monkey Case, writ of habeas corpus}

PETA Sues NIH for Violating Its “First Amendment Right” to Talk to Monkeys

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 13, 2025

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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There is not one modern medical treatment or intervention that does not involve animal research at some point in the process. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Darwin on Trial, Darwinism, Denis Diderot, England, Ernst Mayr, Establishment Clause, First Amendment, Harrisburg, Judge John E. Jones, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Karl Popper, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, L’Homme Machine, Lehigh University, Michael Behe, natural selection, Norman Macbeth, Of Pandas and People, Pennsylvania, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, United States}

Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program

_{Neil Thomas
February 20, 2025

Evolution, Science Education

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Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 8, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, China, City Journal, COVID-19, First Amendment, free speech, Internet, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, media, Mind Matters, science media, skepticism, Stanford University, Tablet, Wall Street Journal, Wuhan}

How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 8, 2023

Environment & Climate, Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 14, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, atheism, Ball State University, Canceled Science, Censor of the Year, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Eric Hedin, eugenics, First Amendment, freedom from religion foundation, Jerry Coyne, Racism, Scientific American, wokeness}

“Woke” Comes Back to Bite the Darwinists

_{Michael Egnor
January 14, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwinist Jerry Coyne has been at the forefront of efforts over the past couple of decades to censor advocates of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 1, 2021

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, atheism, Ball State University, cancel culture, China, Discovery Institute Press, Eric Hedin, First Amendment, freedom from religion foundation, God’s Not Dead, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, scientists, The Boundaries of Science, United States, universe, University of Chicago}

Today, “Canceled” Scientist Eric Hedin Gets His Voice Back

_{David Klinghoffer
March 1, 2021

Scientific Freedom

3}

Cancel culture had no name in 2013. It has since become one of the major worries in contemporary life. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 10, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, California Science Center, cancel culture, creationism, Darwin on Trial, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, En Arche Foundation, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis, First Amendment, free speech, Fundacja En Arche, Helsinki University of Technology, Icons of Evolution, intelligent design, lawsuit, Leon, Marcos Eberlin, Matti Leisola, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Paul Nelson, Phillip E. Johnson, Poland, Richard Sternberg, Signature in the Cell, Smithsonian Institution, Spain, Stephen Meyer, U.S. Constitution, University of Algarve, Warsaw}

Cancel Culture Comes to Poland

_{Jonathan Wells
February 10, 2020

Scientific Freedom

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This sort of behavior is not new. In 2004, the University of Helsinki (Finland) cancelled some scheduled talks by Discovery Institute fellows Paul Nelson and Richard Sternberg. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 6, 2020

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, academic freedom, First Amendment, Free Science, free speech, objectivity, origins science, students, United States, universities, University of Chicago}

From FIRE, Good News on Campus Free Speech

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 6, 2020

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is out now with a new report. It’s their yearly analysis of speech codes. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 12, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, atheism, autopsy, bacteria, Christopher Hitchens, computer program, creation myth, Edward Feser, evolutionary theory, First Amendment, Five Ways, Gaia, genetic information, Lawrence Krauss, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meat machines, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, paganism, plagiarism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Aquinas}

New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools

_{Michael Egnor
December 12, 2019

Faith & Science

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New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching. Read More ›