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In a GQ profile of Pat Buchanan, journalist John Judis asks the presidential candidate his views about teaching creationism in school. 'Look, my view is, I believe God created heaven and earth,' said Buchanan. 'I think this: What ought to be taught as fact is what is known as fact. I don't believe it is demonstrably true that we have descended from apes. I don't believe it. I do not believe all that.
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Did you know that the World Science Festival starts today in New York City? I expect all you eastern city folk to go. Unfortunately, I'm in an airplane flying west today, on my way to Berzerkeley, where we'll have to...
Posted on May 28, 2008 7:00 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Randy Olson doesn't like you. He says some very harsh things about the science blogs readership on the Skepticality podcast — you guys are all just so darn mean to him. This is all very unfortunate, because he does have...
Posted on May 23, 2008 10:37 AM • 226 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Here's the most depressing thing I've seen all week (and I'm grading genetics exams): it's the result of a national survey of high school biology teachers. At least 16% of our high school teachers are young earth creationists. Furthermore, 12%...
Posted on May 20, 2008 12:50 PM • 195 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It's the end of our semester, and there's another transition here: one of our colleagues, Dave Hoppe, is retiring, to our regret but to his happy progress. We all got together for a retirement dinner yesterday, so here's the...
Posted on May 16, 2008 7:23 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Wheaton has a good academic reputation, but man, it's the little things that make it frightening. I would not want to live in the theocratic world it represents. Hank Fox has a couple of stories about Wheaton. The first is...
Posted on April 30, 2008 8:08 AM • 226 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My fellow academics, have you ever noticed that when our science students have problems with writing, we send them off to get tutorials from the people who know better, over in the English department? Our campus has a writing room...
Posted on April 28, 2008 10:25 AM • 132 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
There's an ugly case brewing in Ohio. A popular middle school science teacher has been ordered to remove his copy of the bible from his desk. On the face of it, I think letting a teacher have a bible on...
Posted on April 23, 2008 8:13 AM • 239 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Another minor blog skirmish has erupted over a perennial issue in the blogosphere: the wickedness of anonymous commenters/bloggers/whatever. I'm going to sort of take the side of Greg Laden. I despise anonymous commenters. It's pretty much a sure sign...
Posted on April 19, 2008 3:49 PM • 138 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I've been getting a lot of email about this putatively Islamic public school in Minnesota, Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy. It's a wretched situation — this is a school associated with the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, and clearly all the...
Posted on April 10, 2008 9:15 AM • 187 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A far right wing wanker is suing Ohio State University for discrimination. I hate to say it, but if this account is at all accurate, he might have a case. In 2006, Savage agreed to serve on a committee to...
Posted on March 17, 2008 5:17 PM • 78 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
From among our most German friends, I found this article on WeiterGen on women in science that led to an article by one of my favorite scientists, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, that I found rather disappointing. She describes her experiences as a...
Posted on March 17, 2008 12:11 PM • 153 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In early February, a number of bloggers brought to your attention a peculiar paper on mitochondrial proteomics, a paper which was obviously odd on even casual inspection, containing grandiose claims of a theoretical revolution that were entirely unsupported and ludicrous...
Posted on March 12, 2008 10:35 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Several people have asked me to dig into this and post something on Pharyngula, but I really don't want to — the more I look at it, the more I recoil in baffled disgust. Cedarville University, one of those...
Posted on March 8, 2008 7:09 PM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Teachers, come to Minneapolis this summer! Not for the Republican convention, but for the other great big important meeting that will be taking place: Evolution 2008. Teachers in particular get a really good deal: a special workshop is planned, specifically...
Posted on March 6, 2008 3:37 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Ecological Society of America has just published an article that surveys the state of science teaching in the US. Some of the results are somewhat reassuring — the majority of our college-bound high school students are at least...
Posted on February 25, 2008 8:29 PM • 251 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
