This article, published by World Magazine, mentions Discovery Institute: Jones refuses to comment on a report from the ID-supporting Discovery Institute that he copied more than 90 percent of his ruling’s most critical 25-page section on whether ID constitutes legitimate science. Read the rest of the article here.
This article, published by The Portland Tribune, mentions Discovery Institute’s Cascadia Center: The conference was organized by the Cascadia Center of the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based transportation planning think tank. The rest of the article can be found here.
The Scientist today is reporting about Smithsonian officials’ campaign of discrimination and harassment of evolutionary biologist Richard Sternberg and the Congressional recommendation of more protection for scientist’s free speech rights. In a welcome turn of events, Ted Agres reports accurately and fairly: The Congressional report, prepared by the staff of Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), chairman of the Government Reform subcommittee Read More ›
Discovery Institute has turned the www.idthefuture.com blog site into a podcast, making it the permanent home of the popular ID The Future podcast, and redesigned the Evolution News & Views blog. The ID The Future (IDTF) podcast has garnered over 20,000 subscribers and averages over 1,000 individual listeners for each of its podcasts in its first six months online. IDTF Read More ›
Will the entire Middle East descend into chaos? On Dec. 16, David Brooks, writing in the New York Times, presented a scenario whereby the Middle East became engulfed in a series of regional wars, resulting in the fall of most of the existing states and something close to anarchy in much of the region. His column has caused considerable comment Read More ›
SEATTLE–The demotion of a well-published evolutionary biologist critical of Darwinian evolution has been found to be religiously and politically motivated, according to a new government report. The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform released a staff report titled, “Intolerance and the Politicization of Science at the Smithsonian: Smithsonian’s Top Officials Permit the Demotion and Harassment of Scientist Skeptical Read More ›
If it were non-fiction, Claire Messud’s The Emperor’s Children might have been titled Brats: A Study in Pre-9/11 Liberal Narcissism. I’m glad she wrote it as a novel, though, because neither sociopolitical analysis nor literary fiction — which this is — typically makes for such tense, compelling, cunningly plotted reading as Messud has accomplished here. Her previous novels were of a certain high-toned, Read More ›
JACK KEVORKIAN will soon be out of jail on parole: Let the media races begin. Who will be the first to get the “exclusive” interview of Dr. Death? Will it be Katie Couric, hoping to score her first coup with the CBS Evening News? What about Oprah? She’s the undisputed queen of television. The smart money should probably be on Read More ›
The letter against intelligent design [in reference to “Ultimate Questions,” Summer 2006] signed by 49 U.Va. science faculty is revealing: not only do they oppose ID due to a false characterization of the theory, but they repeat false claims that there are no pro-ID, peer-reviewed science publications. The faculty wrongly define ID as saying, “The less we know, the greater Read More ›
PRISTINA, Kosovo. — This small European nonstate tucked between Albania, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia is a living testament to the inability of the U.N. to solve problems. As some will recall, eight long years ago NATO and the U.N. intervened to stop the war between Serbia and its province of Kosovo, largely inhabited by people of Albanian origin (more than Read More ›