The U.S. Treasury has just released some new data that will bring cheer to the advocates of lower tax rates and heartburn to those who advocate higher tax rates. By way of background, for the last three decades, there has been a fierce debate about which tax rates maximize tax revenue. Economist Art Laffer drew a curve that merely illustrated Read More ›
BIOTECHNOLOGY is becoming dangerously close to raging out of control. Scientists are engaging in ever increasingly macabre experiments that threaten to mutate nature and the human condition at the molecular level. Worse, many scientists have made it clear that society has no right to apply the brakes. According to this view, scientists have a constitutional right under the First Amendment Read More ›
This article, published by WorldNetDaily, is about Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture Senior Fellow Richard Sternberg:
Read More ›The career of a prominent researcher at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington is in jeopardy after he published a peer-reviewed article by a leading proponent of intelligent design, an alternative to evolutionary theory dismissed by the science and education establishment as a tool of religious conservatives.
Richard Sternberg says that although he continues to work in the museum’s Department of Zoology, he has been kicked out of his office and shunned by colleagues, prompting him to file a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
Sternberg charges he was subjected to discrimination on the basis of perceived religious beliefs.
“I’m spending my time trying to figure out how to salvage a scientific career,” Sternberg told David Klinghoffer, a columnist for the Jewish Forward, who reported the story in the Wall Street Journal.
What should public schools teach about life’s origins? Should science educators teach only contemporary Darwinian theory, or not even mention it? Should school boards mandate that students learn about alternative theories? If so, which ones? Or should schools forbid discussion of all theories except neo-Darwinism? These questions are arising frequently as school districts around the country consider how to respond Read More ›
Do you feel more or less free today than you did 10 years ago? If you happen to be a property developer, sit on the board of a public corporation, often travel by air, like to spend your own money supporting political candidates and causes you believe in, or are outspoken in your Christian beliefs, you almost certainly answered the Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›