Scientific Dissent

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Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2025
Human Exceptionalism
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Stand Up for (Ideological) Science 2025 Day!

Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2025
Human Exceptionalism
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Yesterday was “Stand Up for Science 2025” day, which featured rallies around the country to “defend science as a public good and pillar of social, political, and economic progress.” But that isn’t what it was really all about. Former NIH head Francis Collins spoke (and sang) at the D.C. rally, and he was the champion censor of heterodox views during Covid... Read More ›
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Francis Collins at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory
President Joe Biden tours the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Maryland. From left, Deputy Director of the NIH NIAAID Vaccine Research Center Dr. Barney Graham, Chief Medical Adviser to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, and Senior Research Fellow and Coronavirus Team Lead at the NIAIC Vaccine Research Center Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.
Photo by Adam Schultz
Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2023
Human Exceptionalism
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Former Public Health Officials Undermine Public Trust with Conduct Unbecoming Scientists

Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2023
Human Exceptionalism
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Anthony Fauci, the former head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, infamously boasted, “I represent science.” Let’s hope not. His actions during the COVID emergency both corrupted science and undermined trust in our most important public health institutions. Read More ›
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Discovery Institute
October 27, 2020
Discovery Institute
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The Price of Panic

Discovery Institute
October 27, 2020
Discovery Institute
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The last several months have been unlike anything we have ever seen as the world has gone through great lengths to slow the spread of COVID-19. The policy of lockdowns and mass quarantines were widely adopted but each passing day begs the question, did we take the right approach? Read More ›
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President Donald J. Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, listen as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony S. Fauci takes questions from the press during a coronavirus update briefing Tuesday, March 31, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House.
Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks via Flickr
Stephen C. Meyer
May 14, 2020
Research & Analysis
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Trump Needs to Recruit a Medical ‘Red Team’ To Challenge Lockdown-Manic Governors

Stephen C. Meyer
May 14, 2020
Research & Analysis
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President Trump and 50 governors now face a critical choice. How many more weeks, months, or even years should current sheltering-in-place orders continue? When can or should they be lifted? Read More ›
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Still of David Gelernter on Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson via YouTube
David Klinghoffer
January 1, 2020
Intelligent Design
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#1 of Our Top Stories of 2019: Informed by Discovery Authors, Yale’s David Gelernter Rejects Darwinism

David Klinghoffer
January 1, 2020
Intelligent Design
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This is important. Yale University computer scientist David Gelernter is a polymath, a brilliant writer, artist, and thinker. Famed both for his specific scientific expertise, and for his cultural, political, and historical reflections, he’s also now a confessed Darwin skeptic. More than a skeptic really. In a wonderful essay in the new issue of The Claremont Review of Books, “Giving Up Darwin,” he credits reading Stephen Meyer’s book Darwin’s Doubt as the primary cause of his rejecting neo-Darwinian evolution, a “brilliant and beautiful scientific theory” but one that’s now been overtaken by science. Read More ›
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The Center for Science and Culture
February 12, 2019
Intelligent Design
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Scientists Dissent from Darwinian Theory

The Center for Science and Culture
February 12, 2019
Intelligent Design
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Today is Darwin’s Day, the birthday of the venerated Charles Darwin, whose theory is a fact beyond question. Right? The journal Nature assures its readers, “Scientists can treat evolution by natural selection as, in effect, an established fact.” Or as philosopher Michael Ruse wonderfully put it, “Evolution is a fact, fact, FACT!” The insistence on this point encourages a certain Read More ›

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Casey Luskin
February 10, 2012
Intelligent Design
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Intelligent Design Is Peer-Reviewed, but Is Peer-Review a Requirement of Good Science?

Casey Luskin
February 10, 2012
Intelligent Design
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As may be seen from our newly updated page listing Peer-Reviewed & Peer-Edited Scientific Publications Supporting the Theory of Intelligent Design, the ID movement has developed a diverse research program bearing fruit in the form of more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers. Beyond doubt, ID proponents have published a significant body of legitimate peer-reviewed research. In the past, critics charged Read More ›

Discovery Institute
November 1, 2007
Intelligent Design
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Are there established scientists who challenge Darwinian evolution on a scientific basis?

Discovery Institute
November 1, 2007
Intelligent Design
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Yes. Various tenets of Darwinian evolution, and the evidence put forth to support it, has been scientifically challenged by doctoral scientists, researchers and theorists at a number of universities, colleges, and research institutes around the world. Over 700 scientists have signed the Scientific Dissent from Darwin statement since it originated in 2001. Read More ›