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Jerry Coyne has an amusing post on philosopher Thomas Nagel's Times Literary Supplement review of Stephen Meyer's Signature in the Cell: DNA and the evidence for Intelligent Design . Nagel is a world class philosopher and University Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU who has made seminal ...
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This morning Discovery Institute announced their lawsuit against the California Science Center for unlawfully refusing to disclose public documents requested by Discovery Institute under the California Public Records Act.
The petition, filed December 1, 2009, is available for viewing here .
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 2 -- Discovery Institute has filed a lawsuit against the California Science Center (the "Center") for unlawfully refusing to disclose public documents requested by Discovery Institute under the California Public Records Act.
Discovery Institute filed the public documents ...
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The Investor's Business Daily gets it:
The CRU's Criminal Conspiracy
ClimateGate: Britain's Climate Research Unit now says it will release all its data. Does that include the data that have been shredded, deleted and denied publication?
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Peter Hannaford has a great essay in Human Events on Obama's Science Advisor John Holdren and ClimateGate. As you may recall, eco-activist Holdren has a long history of advocacy for coercive measures to reduce human population , and in the 1970's he advocated forced sterilizations and even ...
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Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal has a fine essay on the financial roots of global warming fraud:
Climategate: Follow the Money
Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency ...
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Real climate scientists are sifting out the details of the data to which CRU director and warmist Phil Jones applied fellow warmist Michael Mann's ‘Nature trick…to hide the decline…’.
The hidden data is that of Keith Briffa, a fellow climate scientist (and warmist) at East Anglia. ...
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Need evidence for Darwinian evolution? Just make it
up. That’s the lesson of Donald Prothero’s book, Evolution:...
What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). Prothero is a professor of geology at Occidental ...
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Donald Prothero’s Imaginary Evidence for Evolution
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Senior Editor of Atlantic Monthly Clive Crook is revising his earlier sanguine view of ClimateGate. What happened? He read the emails.
In a post on ClimateGate that Crook wrote before he had read the emails carefully, he observed:
...nothing in the climate science email dump surprised me ...
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You can often tell who won a debate by the plausibility of an account. In that regard, Donald Prothero made many dubious claims about his debate yesterday with Michael Shermer against Steve Meyer and Richard Sternberg. Let's hone in on a couple short comments. Prothero writes: "I know I caught ...
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evolutionnews.org - 34 hours ago
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The great debate over the adequacy of evolution
continues. Sort ot. The latest head to head meeting...
had Dr. Stephen Meyer and Dr. Richard Sternberg debating Dr. Michael Shermer and Dr. Donald Prothero. Heading into the debate I was quite excited; ...
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Ouch. Intelligent Design Guys Put the Sleeperhold on ...
This is not a parody. I swear this is not a parody. From the NEWS.scotsman.com ; date November 30, 2009 (post-ClimateGate):
Warming will 'wipe out billions'
MOST of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global ...
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From the Sunday Times in London:
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a ...
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Will Michael Shermer and Donald Prothero tell the truth about what happened to Richard Sternberg ? That’s one of the open questions going into tonight’s debate in Los Angeles between Shermer and Prothero and ID proponents Stephen Meyer and Richard Sternberg. Shermer and Prothero have a record ...
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Last week National Geographic published an article, “ Evolution vs. Intelligent Design: 6 Bones of Contention ,” that did a mixed job of conveying the pro-intelligent design (ID) viewpoint. When the article actually provided quotes from me (or other ID proponents) about ID—which I very much ...
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Most of us know that President Eisenhower, in his farewell speech, warned of the danger of the "military-industrial complex". Regardless of your particular stand on military spending, there is no doubt that he was substantially right about the enormous abuse of power and fraud in the defense ...
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There's a totalitarian subtext to scientism. Scientism entails a militant certainty of truth, and an utter intolerance for dissent that is remarkably akin to totalitarian political movements. Scientism is increasingly a spawn of the political left, which has been the primary source of ...
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Although this year has been widely touted as the “Year of Darwin” because of its big Darwin-related anniversaries, the book reviewers at the Times Literary Supplement (TLS) in London seem less than enthralled with the year’s crop of pro-Darwin retreads from the publishing industry. Indeed, the ...
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Discovery Institute President Bruce Chapman has written an insightful essay examining the broader significance of the ClimateGate scandal, including its implications for the Darwin-ID debate. Noting that certain major media outlets have tried to spike the ClimateGate story, Chapman observes ...
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Wesley J. Smith has an excellent post at his First Things blog on how the recent ClimateGate scandal is just a symptom of a much broader problem involving the ideological corruption of science:
Global warming isn’t the only field in which we have witnessed this kind of brazen ideological ...
