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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Read More ›
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Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it. Read More ›
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Inhibit the Mind? Scopes Revisionism Can End

The centennial of the Scopes Trial is a good time to set the record straight. Here’s a way to turn the tables on the stereotype. Read More ›
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Photo: A human display from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, via Library of Congress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›
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From Political Scientist John West: Intelligent Design’s Reverse Chameleon-ism

Our colleague John West has a handsome new website with many useful features, but I was particularly intrigued by the section headed, “Something Personal.” Read More ›
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Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›
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“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists

It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend. Read More ›
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Image: Advertisment created in 1904 for St. Louis World's Fair, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian 

Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Read More ›
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Photo: Aleš Hrdlička in 1930, via Wikimedia Commons.

Smithsonian’s Racist Brain Collection Exposed by Washington Post

These human specimens were collected in large part to dramatize how non-white peoples were supposedly lower on the evolutionary ladder than whites. Read More ›
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Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again

Darwin could never be considered the kind of anti-racist activist Graves makes him out to be. Read More ›

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