Tag: anti-Semitism
Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism
Kevin MacDonald is trying to resurrect this troubling legacy of Darwinian theory.
Meet Aleš Hrdlička, FDR’s Favorite Eugenicist
Darwin-inspired eugenics and racial pseudoscience are like some sort of insidious, and hideous, household pest.
Alt-Right’s Interest in Evolution Makes Sense. An Obsession with Taylor Swift? Much Less So
I heard a promotion on our local NPR station for a report about the alt-right and their dual infatuation with Medieval Europe and pop star Taylor Swift.
Freedom and Scientific Progress – A Necessary Relationship
A familiar talking point holds that a rigid attitude to science along Darwinist lines is indispensable to technological advance, while academic freedom impedes it.
A Mathematician Explains the Irreducible Complexity of Metamorphosis
In my 2000 Mathematical Intelligencer article “A Mathematician’s View of Evolution,” I compared the development of the genetic code of life with the development of a computer program, such as my finite element code PDE2D.