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Photo: Neanderthal Musuem, Germany, by Clemens Vasters, via Flickr (cropped).

Will Other Evolutionary Biologists Speak Out About These Misleading Videos?

So, what does it matter if visually compelling but absolutely rubbishy videos give kids and their parents entirely the wrong perception of evolutionary theory? Read More ›
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Photo credit: Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Are We Calling on the Smithsonian to Fix Errors Just to Be Mean?

The errors and biased oversimplifications of scholarly material all run in one direction: to persuade visitors that humans aren’t exceptional beings in nature. Read More ›
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Tribalism in the Evolution Debate

What is all this about “lying”? Cornelius Hunter provides some context at the end of his video that I thought was insightful. Read More ›
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Group Founded by Francis Collins Launches PR Campaign for “Science”

If your research at Harvard costs $1 million to conduct, Harvard will get an extra payment of nearly $900,000 to sweeten the deal. Who wouldn’t want free money? Read More ›
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On Science and Other Subjects, the “Experts” Have Blown Up Their Own Credibility

Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice. Read More ›
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Stand Up for Science or… for Naked Ideology?

“Stand Up for Science 2025” protests were clearly aimed at reaffirming control by the now discredited science establishment. Read More ›
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Woodward: The Impact of Jonathan Wells

Tom Woodward has been ubiquitous in the unfolding culture war over intelligent design. Read More ›
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Photo: SARS-COV-2, by NIAID, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Technocratic Authoritarians Still Want Their “Pandemic Treaty”

Wouldn’t it all have gone a lot better if, instead of our fellow Americans doing it to us, we’d handed over national sovereignty to an international body? Read More ›
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Dawkins and Other Evolutionary Biologists May Be Learning a Hard Lesson

Dawkins and others believe that Facebook’s ban hammer fell on his questions about Imane Khalif competing in the women’s division boxing at the 2024 Olympics. Read More ›
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Peer-Reviewed Paper Applies Systems Engineering to Bacterial Chemotaxis

The article further demonstrates how only a design-based framework yields significant insight into the higher-level organization of biological systems. Read More ›

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