Tag: academic freedom
Kids Bored in Science Class? Empower Them to Explore Hot Topics
It takes guts to empower students to explore hot topics. Sacred cows may be tipped. But there’s no learning, and no innovation, without some risk to the status quo.
Self-refutation and the New Atheists: The Case of Jerry Coyne
Their ideology is a morass of bizarre self-refuting claim
Shock: At Ball State University, Non-Science Courses May Contain Non-Science
Gora has to either go ape on pretty much the entire honors college, or she has to stop pretending that mixing science and non-science in BSU’s honors college is novel, unexpected, and sinful.
Ball State University’s Dangerous Idea: Selective Academic Freedom
At Ball State, you are completely free to teach whatever you want as long as you want to teach this.
Demolishing Darwin’s Tree: Eric Bapteste and the Network of Life
Insiders know about the fundamental controversies in evolutionary theory, and are calling for some of the same reforms that advocates of intelligent design do.