With all of the renewed fuss the Discovery Institute is trying to stir up over the Gonzalez tenure thing, this seems like a really good time to talk about the role of money in the tenure process. I'm not...
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Posted on December 6, 2007 7:41 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Discovery Institute is currently making hay (again) over Iowa State's decision to deny tenure to Discovery Institute Fellow Guillermo Gonzalez. They've held a press conference and issued a press release claiming to have proof that Intelligent Design was...
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Posted on December 3, 2007 4:23 PM • 60 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
One of the joys of procrastination is that sometimes if you wait long enough, someone else really will take care of things. I mention that because Ed Brayton just did a good job dismantling Casey Luskin's latest whine about...
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Posted on November 26, 2007 10:44 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The fine folks at the Discovery Institute aren't happy with tomorrow's PBS documentary on the Dover Intelligent Design case, and they're doing their best to make sure that everyone knows just how unhappy they are. They've been frantically tossing...
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Posted on November 12, 2007 2:37 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Today's New York Times has a story up on the upcoming Ben Stein "documentary" on the alleged persecution that ID proponents face in the academic world. The NYT article quotes a number of scientists who were interviewed for the...
Posted on September 27, 2007 11:59 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Most of the readers of this blog are intelligent, interested, scientifically literate individuals, but I'm guessing that at least a few of you aren't familiar with one of the nouns in the title. Those of you who do know...
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Posted on September 25, 2007 12:10 PM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From an article in the Baptist Press, linked from the Uncommon Descent homepage: "You have to understand, in the current academic climate, Intelligent Design is like leprosy or heresy in times past," [Dembski] said. "To be tagged as an...
Posted on September 5, 2007 11:39 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Mike Dunford is a graduate student in the Department of Zoology at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he studies evolution. He's also a contributer to The Pandas Thumb. As is the case with everyone else here, his opinions are his own, and do not necessarily represent those of any organization he is affiliated with. 
