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If Only This Article in Congressional Quarterly Had Been an April Fools’ Day Joke
And they call this “research”?
Was Ben Stein “Expelled” by Kyocera and Ad Agency for His Views on Intelligent Design?
The company’s message to him indicated that he was dropped for various unnamed policy positions they found him identified with on the Internet.
Dressing Up Uncivil Attacks on Intelligent Design with Scholarly Rhetoric
Is this all it takes to get published by Cambridge University Press these days?
Will Tomorrow’s Academic Freedom Story in The New York Times Accurately Reflect Discovery’s Science Education Policy on Teaching Evolution?
UPDATE: A sentence in the original post has been corrected to read: I stopped her right there and explained that we do not favor mandating the teaching of intelligent design — as is so often misreported — but rather that we think when evolution is taught teachers should present both the evidence the supports Darwinian evolution as well as some of the evidence that challenges it. http://www.academicfreedompetition.comTomorrow The New York Times will publish an article about academic freedom bills being considered in a few states. We’ve obviously had some involvement: in 2008 we created the Academic Freedom Petition, which has sample language that legislators could adapt for use in their own states. That led to a very good piece of Read More ›
Fort Worth Weekly factually challenged when it comes to intelligent design and Darwinian evolution
This story by Laurie James Barker in the Fort Worth Weekly completely misrepresents not just the important issue of how evolution is taught in Texas, but also the views and policy positions of Discovery Institute. Ms. Barker didn’t bother to talk with anyone at Discovery Institute, or it seems to even adequately research our organization. Never mind that she’s produced an extremely biased polemical piece, as opposed to objective reporting of the issue. There are numerous factual errors, errors of omission and such, but for brevity I will simply focus on a few of her mistakes.