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Cosmos 2
Image: Screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.” 

New Cosmos Episodes: Only Part of the Story

These episodes will slip in smoothly in public school science classrooms, someday when all the schools reopen. Read More ›
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scientists
Photo: Joseph Stalin, via Wikimedia Commons.

To Intimidate Scientists, No Stalin Is Required

Many scientists face abuse and threats from an outraged minority who want there to be a biological basis for chronic fatigue syndrome. Read More ›
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“Risky” Business — College Shuts Down Professor over Speech on Science, Free Expression

Adam Perkins, King’s College London lecturer in Neurobiology of Personality, was scheduled to deliver a talk at his institution. Read More ›
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Photo: Grave of Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, by Duncan Harris from Nottingham, UK [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism

The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers. Read More ›
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Photo: Lysenko speaks, Stalin listens, via Wikicommons.

American Lysenkoism, and the Darwinists Who Embrace It

Today the term Lysenkoism applies to any use of government power to enforce scientific orthodoxy. Read More ›
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Photo: Lysenko speaks, Stalin listens, via Wikicommons.

Darwinian Lysenkoism in America

As Lysenkoism enjoys a revival in Russia, it thrives here too. Read More ›
When to Doubt
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Heading into Today’s March, Here’s When to Doubt a Scientific “Consensus”

Marches are usually held to defend something that’s in peril. Does anyone really think big science is in danger? Read More ›
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Trofim Lysenko
Trofim Lysenko
Nationaal Archief, the Dutch National Archives, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons

American Lysenkoism

Darwinists have compared intelligent design to Lysenkoism, but they have it backward. Read More ›

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