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Science Philosopher: Science World Beset by “Filters,” “Conformity,” “Hidebound” Thinking

How often have we heard the stale line about how science adores fresh thinking that topples past idols? Read More ›

Recalling the First Eugenics Law, John West Reviews the Tragic History of a Pseudoscience

Indiana opened a door to similar legislation across the United States, culminating in the horrors of Nazi Germany. Read More ›

In Science Education, Academic Freedom Makes Progress Across America

Sarah Chaffee spoke to AF proponents in Alabama, Oklahoma, and Texas. Read More ›

Beyond Hitler/Darwin: Evolutionary Moral Anarchism

At the website Credo, our colleague Richard Weikart is writing a clear-eyed series of articles about what happens to ethics when it's subjected to evolutionary thinking. Read More ›

Scientists Ask Court to Respect Academic Freedom and Not Restrict Scientific Research and Inquiry

85 Scientists Join Together in Urging Court to Protect Academic Freedom and Not Limit Research into Intelligent Design Theory

Harrisburg, PA – Eighty-five scientists have filed an Amicus Brief in the Kitzmiller v. Dover trial asking the Judge to “affirm the freedom of scientists to pursue scientific evidence wherever it may lead” and not limit research into the scientific theory of intelligent design. Not all the signers are proponents of intelligent design, but they do agree “that protecting the freedom to pursue scientific evidence for intelligent design stimulates the advance of scientific knowledge.”

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Freeze Dried Protestors Fight for the Establishment…the Scientific Establishment

I would personally like to thank Washington Post reporter Peter Slevin for highlighting the deeply held convictions of the new branch campus of the Darwin-only lobby in Fairfax Virginia. Like the cause-heads of PCU this group of freeze dried protestors “led mostly by Vietnam-era protesters” who “came together in frustration after the November elections, have little political experience, apart from hoisting Kerry-Edwards signs.”

Said Richard Lawrence, 63:

‘”We’re just a small group, maybe with a powerful idea. We don’t have a clue, but we’re not letting go.”‘

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