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Another professor calls for censoring speakers

At the end of yesterday’s piece about a professor calling for censorship of speech that “dehumanizes people,” I predicted that we’re going to see more academics calling for censorship of invited speakers. After all, most professors are Leftists, some are Regressive Leftists, some Regressive Leftists (especially in universities) favor censorship, ergo you’ll probably find professors who … Continue reading Another professor calls for censoring speakers

Should there be a “Third Way” of evolution? I think not.

Someone just called a fairly new “Evolution-Needs-a-New-Paradigm” website to my attention, and I wish they hadn’t. The site, “The Third Way of Evolution,” has been going for some time and, according to the its notes, was created last May by two biologists, James Shapiro (here at the University of Chicago) and Dennis Noble, a renowed physiologist who was formerly a … Continue reading Should there be a “Third Way” of evolution? I think not.

NC State student admits that his antievolution diatribe was a satire, but a real creationist appears

On November 16 I wrote about Nicky Vaught, a student at North Carolina State University who published an article in the student newspaper The Technician that looked to be pure creationism: “How to argue against evolutionists.” It was so laden with dreadful creationist tropes that I suspected it might be a joke, but in the end … Continue reading NC State student admits that his antievolution diatribe was a satire, but a real creationist appears

James Shapiro gets evolution wrong again

When is PuffHo going to realize that they’re publishing criticisms of evolutionary biology that are deeply misguided? Do they have no worries about misleading the public with bad science? I refer to the recurring posts of my Chicago colleague James Shapiro, who is making a PuffHo blogging career out of attacking “neoDarwinism,” the modern theory … Continue reading James Shapiro gets evolution wrong again

James Shapiro, in his attempts to forge a new evolutionary paradigm, is reduced to going after my commenters

My Chicago colleague James Shapiro appears to have been badly stung by my repeated criticisms of his attempts to forge a new evolutionary view based on the “self-engineering” of organisms and their DNA (see here,  here, here, and here, for instance). This will be the last time I comment on Shapiro’s PuffHo pieces, as I … Continue reading James Shapiro, in his attempts to forge a new evolutionary paradigm, is reduced to going after my commenters

Famous physiologist embarrasses himself by claiming that the modern theory of evolution is in tatters

Here we go again: someone arguing that DARWIN WAS RONG  (well, he was, on several issues) and also that DARWIN’S INTELLECTUAL DESCENDANTS ARE RONG TOO. But this time it’s not a creationist but a card-carrying biologist, and a famous one, too. Matthew Cobb ruined my morning by sending me a video of the renowned physiologist Denis … Continue reading Famous physiologist embarrasses himself by claiming that the modern theory of evolution is in tatters

James Shapiro goes after natural selection again (twice) on HuffPo

I hate to give attention to my Chicago colleague James Shapiro’s bizarre ideas about evolution, which he publishes weekly on HuffPo rather than in peer-reviewed journals. His Big Idea is that natural selection has not only been overemphasized in evolution, but appears to play very little role at all.  Even though he’s spreading nonsense in … Continue reading James Shapiro goes after natural selection again (twice) on HuffPo