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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.
Category: Anti-evolution
NCSE has announced that two remaining anti-evolution bills have died in committee: Alabama & Missouri. To recap the year: Mississippi - dead in committee Oklahoma - dead in committee Iowa - dead in committee New Mexico - dead in committee...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:30 PM • 3 Comments •
"Biological imperatives trump laws." Quick ... who said that? Evil Darwinist? Nazi eugenicist? Liberal professor? Nope to all three. Answer is Orson Scott Card - sci-fi hack, proponent of guiltless genocide, and anti-Darwinist - in a screed against gay marriage....
Posted by John Lynch at 11:50 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Politics
The Arizona Education Association is reporting that nearly 4,500 K-12 teachers and other personnel have been pink-slipped for the next school year. What is truly worrying about this is that it is based on reports from only 36 of the...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:27 AM • 11 Comments •
Matt Taibbi on Jake DeSantis' narcissism: Only a person with a habitually overinflated sense of self-worth could think he deserves a $700,000 retention bonus, even if it has to be paid by taxpayers, when in reality no one "deserves" that...
Posted by John Lynch at 12:22 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Politics
The Dawkins @ Oklahoma debacle continues. As Greg Lukianoff correctly notes: Think about it: If every time a student or faculty member invited, say, Rick Warren to speak on campus, they knew they would be subjected to a thorough and...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:17 PM • 3 Comments •
As some here know, I have a daughter. If some idiot (like, for example, Laura Ingraham) made a comment about her, I'd stand up for her. That's what fathers do - especially if that comment had something to do about...
Posted by John Lynch at 3:21 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Texas House Bill 4224 (introduced yesterday) attempts to introduce "strengths and weaknesses" language, despite opposition from scientists and educators. More over at NCSE....
Posted by John Lynch at 3:37 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Politics
Mike Dunford has linked to a CAP poll for measuring political ideology. What can I say, I'm procrastinating, so I answered the questions and scored 344 out of 400. That makes me a god-damned baby-eating liberal pinko scumbag "extremely progressive."...
Posted by John Lynch at 1:18 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Anti-evolution
Over at PT, Hector Avalos is reporting that the deadline has passed for the DI-inspired "Evolution Academic Freedom Act” (HF 183) to move out of committee in Iowa. This one is now officially dead. Thus the scorecard so far looks...
Posted by John Lynch at 9:43 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Politics
Jim Cramer (of CNBC "Mad Money") doesn't come off too well when he chats with Stewart. See here (video) and here. Short version: the financial news industry is guilty of sins of commission in all of this. As Stewart says,...
Posted by John Lynch at 2:59 AM • 1 Comments •
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