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 ›
While most organized celebrations help knit cultures together, according to the organizers of Darwin Day, those traditional holidays “have often been, and continue to be, the source of serious conflicts.” The ACLU could not agree more. And so a new celebration has arrived, one complete with its own symbols, carols, and talismans, and one its organizers hope will “unite a Read More ›
STRIKE UP THE BAND! Around the world today, February 12, admirers of Charles Darwin will celebrate the great man’s 198th birthday with lectures, concerts, and exhibits. Darwin Day, as it’s called, is meant to be cheerful, with a bit of good-natured triumphalism, marking what celebrants see as the intellectual victory of Darwinism, the theory of evolution by the purely material Read More ›
This article, published by The Seattle Times, mentions Discovery Institute Fellow Bruce Agnew: Bruce Agnew of Cascadia describes it as a low-impact commuter car that can run on biodiesel and be maintained by diesel mechanics from community colleges. The rest of the article can be found here.
Quiz: How much to you think it costs U.S. taxpayers annually to support each member of the U.S. House of Representatives? Each senator? Well, according to the new U.S. budget, you, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, spend $3.1 million to support each House member and $9 million to support each senator. Back in 1963 when John F. Kennedy was president, the Read More ›