Politically Incorrect Scientist
How the Co-Founder of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Advocated Intelligent Design. Read More ›
Politically Incorrect Scientist: How the Co-Founder of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Advocated Intelligent Design
Unlike Darwin, Wallace believed that biology provides powerful evidence of intelligent design. As a result, Wallace largely has been written out of the history of science by contemporary supporters of undirected evolution. Read More ›
The Disturbing Rehabilitation of Dr. Kevorkian
When Jack Kevorkian came to the nation’s attention in the 1990s, reporters at first depicted him — correctly — as a macabre and megalomaniacal promoter of death. But he was remade into a popular icon, becoming a pet guest on 60 Minutes, treated to uncharacteristically softball interviews by Mike Wallace and fawned over by Andy Rooney, and then declared by Time magazine to Read More ›
Icons Anniversary – Tree of Life
In Icons of Evolution, biologist Jonathan Wells compared icons of evolution –such as homology in vertebrate limbs– with published scientific evidence, and revealed that much of what we teach about evolution is wrong. Published in 2000, the book raised troubling questions about the status of Darwinian evolution that are still plaguing scientists today.
“Stamp Out Hate”: Ode to the N.Y. Times
Day after day, in editorials and columns, the way the New York Times and similar media organs attempt—against any evidence—to link the Jared Loughner murders in Tucson to political conservatives. It has become the kind of slander that even one of the few moderates at the Times, David Brooks, descries as “vicious charges made by people who claimed to be criticizing viciousness.” He was not Read More ›
Mental Illness Makes Sense of Arizona Killings
The wrong lessons, as usual, are being taken from the weekend attacks in Tucson, AZ. The first reports on the shooting of some 18 people in Arizona—with six dead, including a federal judge, and the critical wounding of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Tucson—led almost at once to speculation that the shooter might have been someone influenced by the tea parties Read More ›
How Great Corporate Power Shadows Gregoire on Coal Shipments to China
This article, published by Crosscut, quotes Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: Bruce Agnew, who is heading a passenger-train “modeling” exercise for the Cascadia Project and Whatcom County governments, says, “It is clear that expansion of coal trains from the Powder River Basin through Northwest ports to China is their (BNSF) major strategic initiative.” The rest of the article can be found Read More ›
New START: Can Five GOP Secretaries of State Be Wrong?
In a Washington Post op-ed, five former secretaries of state—all of whom served under Republican presidents—urged ratification of the New START Treaty, although they did not press for ratification during the current lame duck session. Could they all be wrong? In a word: Yes … The authors argue: (1) New START promotes verification; (2) New START permits missile defenses; (3) New START’s ratification Read More ›
New START: The Cost of Pell Mell Ratification
President Obama pushed his New START Treaty through Congress before Christmas. Do not celebrate. The Russians will, and should. Why? First, the Russians got an arms-reduction treaty negotiated on their terms, relieving them of the pressure to maintain a strategic nuclear arsenal beyond what the economic base permits, enabling them to hide telemetry test data on their newest strategic missiles Read More ›
‘Science Says’ Is Now Just Another Special Interest Claim
President Obama echoed an often-heard lament when he complained recently that, among Americans, “facts and science and argument do not seem to be winning the day.” According to distressed cultural observers, public ignorance about science is evidenced by failure to accept global warming, “animal rights,” euthanasia and Darwinian evolution. The assumption is that doubting scientists’ claims means you have divorced Read More ›