Tag: academic freedom
New Model Legislative Resolution on University Student Academic Freedom in Science
From otherwise very impassioned and articulate commentators, the silence on this subject is remarkable. Truly, it’s a scandal.
Suppressing Science at Brown University
Career anxiety is exactly how heterodox thought is policed and stamped out in the academic world.
Free Speech or “Better Speech”?
What Denyse O’Leary calls “well-intentioned nonsense” will protect no one that needs protecting.
Introducing the New “Conspiracism” Canard
Here’s a fresh twist on efforts to evade a debate about design in nature by associating ID with tendencies in thought that many people find disreputable.
Chaffee, Sewell: “Evolution — More Certain Than Gravity?”
“Imagine two science teachers. Mr. Smith expects students simply to memorize and correctly regurgitate.”