Tag: academic freedom
What Drives Drosophila to Drink, and Science Editors to Report on It
“The real story — what makes a bunch of boring experiments front-page news — is clearly the tiresome insinuation that human beings are ‘just like’ fruit flies.”
News Media Going Ape with Misinformation about Tennessee Academic Freedom Bill
I told you this would happen.
A New Study of James Clerk Maxwell Attempts to Defend His Design Argument at the Expense of Intelligent Design
Maxwell breathed new life into natural theology and helped in some measure to sustain the design argument in Victorian England.
Academic Freedom Bill Passes Tennessee State Senate
The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) is already mocking SB 893 as the “Tennessee monkey bill.”
Oklahoma House Passes Academic Freedom Act by Overwhelming Margin
Striking a blow for academic freedom, the Oklahoma House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that would protect the rights of teachers and students to learn about scientific controversies over biological evolution, climate change, cloning, and other issues.