Ohio Academy of Sciences Criticized for Scare Tactics on Evolution
Ohio Academy of Sciences Criticized for Scare Tactics on Evolution SEATTLE, FEB. 24 — The leadership of the Ohio Academy of Sciences (OAS) was sharply criticized today by Discovery Institute for trying to censor Ohio’s new science curriculum on evolution through a campaign of fear and innuendo. “The OAS leadership’s scare campaign is more science fiction than science,” said Bruce Chapman, Read More ›
Cobb County (Georgia) School Board Promotes Academic Freedom, Not Religion
Praising the adoption Thursday night of a policy encouraging the “discussion of disputed views” about evolution in Cobb County, Georgia schools, Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman called the decision “a victory for academic freedom and good science education” and faulted critics of the policy for “trying to mischaracterize the controversy as a battle over religion.” “The policy adopted by the Read More ›
Biologist Ken Miller Flunks Political Science on Santorum
The expertise of Brown University biologist Ken Miller apparently knows no bounds. Perhaps tired of being just a biologist, Miller in recent weeks has taken to moonlighting as a legal scholar and political scientist. The focus of Miller’s newfound expert knowledge is what has come to be called the “Santorum Amendment” adopted by Congress last year, which encourages coverage of Read More ›
U.C. San Diego Researchers Exaggerate Findings to Promote Evolutionary Theory
A mutant shrimp is being claimed as “a landmark in evolutionary biology” that proves Darwin’s critics wrong. But its nothing of the sort, says biologist Jonathan Wells. A research team headed by William McGinnis at the University of California at San Diego has reported discovering a DNA mutation that produces shrimp without hind legs. Their report is being published in Read More ›
Internet Law Task Force Organizing to Achieve Consensus on Internet Legal Issues
OCTOBER 31, 1995 — Seattle,WA — The first international conference on the law of the Internet served as the platform for the announcement of an effort to establish the Internet Law Task Force (ILTF) to facilitate the progressive development of law and public policy in the global information age. The ILTF will provide an international forum for issues related to the use and growth of the Internet including: evolution of the business practices and legal instruments to assure the validity and acceptance of digital transactions; property rights; privacy; and the elimination of legal barriers to Internet commerce and electronic transactions. “We need to accelerate at the global level the development of solutions borne of consensus,” stated Peter Harter, former executive director and general Read More ›