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Disco. 'tute "research" director Casey Luskin is sad. Congressional Quarterly wrote about creationism and didn't say nice things about "intelligent design" creationism. Casey insists that ID shouldn't be lumped in with young earth creationism or geocentrism, asserting: the vast majority of leaders…
I haven't written anything about the Ward Churchill situation, but I'd like to point to a post that I think nails it pretty well. Brian Leiter has summed up my thoughts pretty well in this post where he defends the man's academic freedom. From what I've seen, Churchill is an arrogant and mediocre…
Senator Harry Reid, the incoming Senator minority leader, caught a lot of flak for saying that Clarence Thomas' legal opinions are poorly written and that he was "an embarrassment to the court." Some of that flak came from me, in a post where I pointed out that while I am on the opposite side of…
I like reading about the history of science, including my own discipline. But there is one kind of history of science that annoys me hugely, and that's the knowledge relativist kind. A knowledge relativist historian of science will chronicle a scientific debate of the past but make no comment on…

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