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Commentary on the Endless Dispute Between Evolution and Creationism
Jason Rosenhouse received
his PhD in mathematics
from Dartmouth College in 2000.
He subsequently spent three years as a post-doc at
Kansas State University.
Observing the machinations of the Kansas Board of Education
led to his unhealthy obsession with issues related
to evolution and creationism.
Currently he is an Associate Professor of
Mathematics at James Madison University,
in Harrisonburg, VA.
Category: Politics
Sarah Palin's new book does not contain an index. So Christopher Beam, writing at Slate made one for her! Not that you were planning to read the book anyway, but this will save you the trouble. If for some reason...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 4:20 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Politics
I'm sure we all remember the book Unscientific America, by Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum. I found the book to be very disappointing, for reasons I explained in my epic, three-part review (Part One, Part Two, Part Three.) In short,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 3:40 PM • 163 Comments •
Category: Politics
So wonders Razib Khan over at Secular Right:: In any case, I'm on the record as saying that predictions for 2012 are very premature. But, it looks like 3 of the front-runners for the G.O.P. nomination are rather frank Creationists...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 5:56 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Politics
I only have time for quick blogging today, so how about a brief observation. Here is Paul Krugman's latest column. It is a characteristically lucid and informative column about some bad economic ideas that are circulating around Washington these days....
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 2:06 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Politics
As a companion to this post, I would like to put forth Alan Grayson, a first-term representative from Florida, as a candidate for Speaker of the House. On Wednesday Grayson said: Now, the Democrats have a different plan. The Democrats...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 7:06 PM • 23 Comments •
Category: Politics
By now I assume everyone has heard that South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson heckled President Obama during the latter's big health care speech on Wednesday. When Obama claimed that there was nothing in his bill that would extend health insurance...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 11:00 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Politics
I have been a huge Quentin Tarantino fan ever since seeing Reservoir Dogs in college. I have loved all of his movies, with Jackie Brown being the only item in the corpus that gets a rating below brilliant. So you...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 10:38 PM • 25 Comments •
Category: Politics
Barney Frank confronted one of those “Obama is a Nazi!” types at a town hall meeting the other day. Video here. QUESTIONER (holding a picture of Obama with a Hitler moustache): Why do you continue to support a Nazi policy,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:27 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Politics
Time to wrap up my discussion of Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum's book Unscientific America. In Part One I focused on the main themes of the book, arguing that it was superficial in its analysis of the issues and that...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 6:00 PM • 43 Comments •
Category: Politics
Meanwhile, the debate over health care reform is playing out according to a familiar script. Armies of conscienceless right-wing attack dogs make stuff up in their attempt to prevent some sensible piece of social reform. Democrats are slow to respond,...
Posted by Jason Rosenhouse at 10:03 PM • 24 Comments •
