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John M. Lynch is an Honors Faculty Fellow at Barrett the Honors College at Arizona State University. He's also affiliated with ASU's Center for Biology & Society. When he's not an historian of anti-evolutionism, he's an evolutionary morphologist. Much to his surprise, in 2007 he was named the Arizona Professor of the Year. No doubt his students were surprised as well.
The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine is a sham concocted by Merck and Elsevier. See here and here. I'm sure there are some sort of ethical issues here. Update (5/3): Janet and Isis have more on this. Janet...
Posted by John Lynch at 5:51 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
In the past I have argued that historians of science probably need to get more involved with the fight for good science education. Michael Barton has brought my attention to historian Abigail Lustig giving testimony before the Texas Board...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:53 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
My recent talk at the Sam Nobel Oklahoma Museum of Natural History is now available online on iTunes as a podcast. Here is the link to SNOMNH's podcast feed. So settle down with a fine beverage and watch me for...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:30 PM • •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
PZ is reporting that John Maddox - former editor of Nature - has died at the age of 84. Like PZ, I remember him for his review of Rupert Sheldrake's New Age garbage ("morphic resonance" *shudder*). As commentators over at...
Posted by John Lynch at 11:04 PM • •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Adam Goldstein has a post over at the Evolution: Education & Outreach blog which discusses a forthcoming paper by Genie Scott and Glenn Branch (both of the NCSE). Scott & Branch follow Olivia Judson in calling for the abandonment of...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:19 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Sadly, to the DI, this is what counts as the utterance of a "serious scholar who knows what he's saying:" Evolutionary theory is at odds with itself: It cannot accept that man is a special being, raised above all others...
Posted by John Lynch at 8:57 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
The following was posted to the mailing list for the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) by Dick Burian. I felt it worth reposting here. Marjorie Grene passed away March 16 at age 98...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:59 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
Or at least it did in Darwin's day. See here. "Thanks to the discovery, historians now have the exact date of Darwin's arrival at the university - January 26th, 1828 - as well as a huge assortment of details which...
Posted by John Lynch at 4:52 PM • 2 Comments •
Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
John Wilkins has informed me that Marjorie Grene, the noted historian and philosopher of biology, died of cancer yesterday. I was just using her wonderful The Philosophy of Biology: An Episodic History yesterday while preparing a class....
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Category: History and Philosophy (often of Science)
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PZ Myers 11.07.2009
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