Category: Free Speech
Has the Darwin-Lobbying National Center for Science Education Gone Wobbly on Us?
Bryan College, named for William Jennings Bryan, wants faculty to sign a statement affirming the historicity of Adam and Eve and denying mankind’s descent from animals.
Question for a Censor: Should a Teacher Be Punished for Telling Students What the New York Times Said About Evolution in 1980?
Censors like Zack Kopplin oppose legislation like that, claiming they are protecting students from being indoctrinated in “creationism.”
Here’s What the NY Times Was Saying About Evolution in 1980
Sharing with students this type of mainstream scientific criticism of Darwinian theory is precisely the kind of speech that academic freedom laws seek to protect.
It’s Darwin Day, and the “Censor of the Year” Poster Has Landed
See you next year. I don’t expect we will have trouble identifying an equally deserving “winner” though I would be delighted to be wrong.
“Censor of the Year” Jerry Coyne Wants a Poster of Himself. He Read Our Minds.
As I’ve already indicated, being recognized as a bully doesn’t merit a prize, yet we couldn’t let this go totally unmarked by ceremony.