Related information The question of whether Intelligent Design (ID) may be presented to public-school students alongside neo-Darwinian evolution has roiled parents and teachers in various communities lately. Whether ID may be presented to adult scientific professionals is another question altogether but also controversial. It is now roiling the government-supported Smithsonian Institution, where one scientist has had his career all but Read More ›
Federal government prosecutors are sending doctors to prison for making mistakes in filing Medicare paperwork. At the same time, Medicare customer service representatives are apparently not even reprimanded for a 96 percent error rate in answering questions about how to handle physician billings. These representatives work at call centers operated by insurance carriers handling Medicare claims, and are tasked with Read More ›
SACRAMENTO, JAN. 17 – A California school district has been sued in federal court for violating a parent’s civil rights during a controversy over how to teach evolution. For more than a year, Larry Caldwell tried to get the Roseville Joint Union High School District outside of Sacramento to consider changing how it taught the theory of evolution in its Read More ›
Original Article The current frenzied attack on the teaching of evolution in public schools in school boards across the United States is to be welcomed. There, I’ve said it. And no, I’m not a fundamental Christian, a creationist, or a right-wing ideologue. What I am is someone who sees an outstanding opportunity to exchange views with the naysayers, and a Read More ›
PRESIDENT BUSH WENT TO MADISON County, Illinois, last week to kick off his campaign for tort reform. “Junk lawsuits change the way doctors do medicine,” said the president, surrounded by a phalanx of doctors from southern Illinois. “Instead of taking care of patients, they’re worried about lawsuits.” Madison County — named the nation’s worst “judicial hellhole” by the American Tort Read More ›
In school districts across the country, Darwinists are waging a fierce campaign to protect students from learning about the scientific weaknesses of their theory. Now it appears they may also have convinced PBS affiliate KNME in Albuquerque, New Mexico to protect its viewers from this dangerous information. At the last minute, KNME cancelled “Unlocking the Mystery of Life,” a science Read More ›
How can guardians of the status quo protect Darwinism from competition in the classroom? One way is to play a definitional game, arguing that intelligent design isn’t science. They do this by claiming that when a scientist argues that something in nature was designed, she does so only because we’re ignorant about the details of how it arose naturally. Opponents Read More ›
Much was made about “people power” and the coming of democracy to Central Asia when the repressive government was toppled by street protests in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan. While I am a firm believer in the great power of freedom, and predicted a successful Iraqi election, I am uncertain whether such optimism is warranted in Central Asia. What Read More ›
ATLANTA, JAN. 13 – Despite ruling that “fostering critical thinking” about evolution “is a clearly secular purpose,” and agreeing that the Cobb County, Georgia school district had secular, not religious reasons for adopting a textbook sticker dealing with evolution, a federal judge today struck down the sticker as unconstitutional. “Given the tepid defense of the sticker presented by the school Read More ›