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Gilder Prophet Outside His Own Country

_{Bruce Chapman
May 12, 2014}

Not only did Francisco Maroquin University salute Gilder--and bring almost all its students out to hear him in various venues--it also has named a center on technology and economics in his honor.

Focus on Abundance, Not Scarcity

_{Bruce Chapman
April 29, 2014}

The negative cast of contemporary politics is displayed nowhere so much as in the debates over the environment.

New Opponents to Opinion Suppression

_{Bruce Chapman
April 10, 2014}

Slowly the liberal left -- that is, the ones are not committed to illiberal suppression of opposing viewpoints -- is finding its voice.

A German Genocide Before the Nazis

_{Bruce Chapman
January 20, 2014}

Darwinists today hate this kind of story because they don't want the racism that Darwin offered analytically in The Descent of Man to implicate him in the crimes that followed.

Flying Censorship Monster Crashes in Kansas

_{Bruce Chapman
January 3, 2014}

There is a funny thing about censorship; once it starts it doesn't know where to stop.

Meet Ma and Pa

_{Bruce Chapman
December 4, 2013}

A geneticist in Georgia contends as a scientific proposition that man descended from pigs as well as chimp-like apes.

The Catty Dr. Coyne

_{Bruce Chapman
October 29, 2013}

Coyne, like Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice -- stroking his famous cat -- is suspicious.

The Power of Positive Science Thinking

_{Bruce Chapman
October 22, 2013}

Positive psychology is essentially the science of misappropriations from serious science to dignify humbug.?

No Dissent, Please, We’re the LA Times

_{Bruce Chapman
October 15, 2013}

Feel pity for letters editor Paul Thornton. He says he will not print letters that are skeptical of the human role in climate change.

Geeks Should Like Gildernomics

_{Bruce Chapman
September 19, 2013}

Venture capitalist Tom Alberg reviews George Gilder’s Knowledge and Powertoday for Geekwire.com, managing to sound objective while still pushing the Gilder analysis forward. Well he should, as they are old friends of decades’ standing. Next Monday, September 23, Alberg, a founder of the Madrona Group, will interview Gilder before an audience at Town Hall in Seattle. You can register online for the event here. (Town Hall is at 1119 Eighth Ave., downtown Seattle. Sponsored by Discovery Institute, Madrona Venture Group and Washington Policy Center, admission to the event is $10, which includes reception at 6 p.m. and program at 7:00. Book signing to …

Save John Harvard

_{Bruce Chapman
September 15, 2013}

Perhaps the Freedom From Religion Foundation should demand that the old man's seated statue be removed from Harvard Yard and the name of the college changed to Pinker.

“Scientists Say”: A Ubiquitous Category of Media Hype

_{Bruce Chapman
September 8, 2013}

The ice cap in the Arctic is 60 percent bigger than this time last year, scientists say.

Unsettling Science

_{Bruce Chapman
August 28, 2013}

Real Clear Science is a disappointing source of scientific news and opinion, largely because it seems to be edited with the idea that there is no mere "opinion" to it.

“Materialism” Means More than Greed

_{Bruce Chapman
August 19, 2013}

For those who deplore materialism in science, it is useful to consider that the lack of a sense of the spiritual in people's lives often finds its replacement in the pursuit of status and things.

Bill Nye and Science Lies

_{Bruce Chapman
July 24, 2013}

Imagine someone called "The Democracy Guy" or "The Medicine Guy" who rendered judgments on a subject he hadn't fairly studied and did not accurately represent.

Freedom from Religion Foundation Now Goes After Judaism

_{Bruce Chapman
July 21, 2013}

FFRF, the group that has been trying to intimidate Ball State University in Indiana over a course on the "Boundaries of Science," has a new cause.

A Countercultural Appetite for Darwin’s Doubt

_{Bruce Chapman
July 1, 2013}

The standard Darwinian tactic is to ignore plausible counterarguments, and when that no longer suffices, to smear authors as creationists who don't understand science.

George Gilder and Stephen Meyer on Creativity in Various Forms

_{Bruce Chapman
June 12, 2013}

A Forbes review of George Gilder's new book, Knowledge and Power, describes the crucial role that information theory plays in Gilder's new economics

Ball State Should Get on the Ball

_{Bruce Chapman
June 8, 2013}

A writer in the em>Fort Wayne (IN) News-Sentinel says the Freedom from Religion Foundation has provoked an "inquisition" into the teaching of a professor of physics.

Psychiatry as “Science” Controversy Grows

_{Bruce Chapman
May 28, 2013}

Slowly it is dawning on people that the borders of "science" are not hard; they bleed into other fields and cannot be construed as fixed.