An intimidatingly learned colleague has written to a few friends to deplore the latest bulletin on Senator John McCain, who is of course running for president. The news is that McCain has agreed to speak at a luncheon hosted by the Discovery Institute in Seattle. What offends my friend is that the think tank in question supports the concept of Read More ›
For decrying a Muslim congressman who wished to take a ceremonial oath of office on a Quran instead of a Bible, should KRLA-AM radio host Dennis Prager be punished? Specifically, should he be kicked off the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council? That is what a diverse range of Prager critics — from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to former New York Read More ›
This article, published by WorldNetDaily, is about Discovery Institute Center for Science & Culture Senior Fellow Richard Sternberg: What did happen to Dr. Sternberg is shocking even by Washington standards. The damage done to his career is real, irreversible and symptomatic of the lengths the science establishment will go to suppress challenges to the most vulnerable of its paradigms, namely Read More ›
This article, published by The Wichita Eagle, quotes Discovery Institute Senior Fellow John G. West: John West, a senior fellow at the Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which supports intelligent design research and didn’t want the standards rewritten, called the deletion “a travesty” and wrote an angry letter to board members. The rest of the article can be found here.
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) recently announced its “Guidelines for the Conduct of Embryonic Stem Cell Research.” The results are not encouraging. The Guidelines claim to “emphasize the responsibility of scientists to ensure that human stem cell research is carried out according to rigorous standard of research ethics.” But saying it doesn’t make it so. What the Read More ›
TOPEKA — A national group is urging the Kansas State Board of Education to reject on Tuesday a plan to delete coverage of the historical misuses of science from state curriculum standards, including a reference to the infamous Tuskegee syphilis experiment targeting African-Americans. “The board’s plan to whitewash the history of science is shameful,” said Dr. John West, Vice President Read More ›
February 12 used to be known in classrooms across the nation as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. But over the last decade, an increasing number of schools and community groups have decided to celebrate the birthday of the father of evolution instead. The movement to establish February 12 as “Darwin Day” seems to be spreading, promoted by a evangelistic non-profit group with Read More ›
Original Article Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing, by Mark T. Mitchell (ISI, 215 pp., $15) The boulevard leading into Dachau from Munich is now called the Max Born Strasse. It is named after one of the greatest theoretical physicists of the 20th century, Max Born (18821970), a German Jew who taught in Frankfurt and Göttingen (191932) and then in Read More ›
The specter of academic discrimination against an unpopular minority should have a special resonance in the Jewish community. Or so you would think. Between World War I and the end of World War II, Jews in the United States lived through a period of anti-Semitism notable for its impact on academia. According to Leonard Dinnerstein in his comprehensive history Anti-Semitism Read More ›