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Academic freedom: No liberals need apply?
(No, this isn’t a proper academic freedom issue; disgraceful, but not an issue of viewpoint suppression. Conservatives who claim such things when the shoe is on the right foot still won’t complain,...
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UC Irvine works to rehire Chemerinsky; OC Republicans make trouble
If you can figure some way to interpret this story in the LA Times as other than the Orange County Republicans don’t want a good, powerful dean of the UC-Irvine law school, let me know in comments....
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UC-Irvine, Chemerinsky patch it up
Erwin Chemerinsky has agreed, again, to take the post of dean at the new law school at the University of California at Irvine. Leaping off a bit from what Brian Leiter said earlier, that deans really...
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Creationist upwelling in Iowa creates muddy water
The Des Moines Register followed up on the story of the community college professor who said he was fired for teaching the Bible as literature, and not as religion, in a class on western civilization....
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Unread scripture: Come, let us reason together*
The right-wing nominally Catholic journal First Things features another assault on the quest for reason in its October issue. Pope John Paul II said evolution is a scientific understanding of creation...
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That kid’s at it again
The kid in Kearny, New Jersey, who caught his U.S. history teacher peddling religion instead, is at it again. This time he’s targeting a textbook on government — and it happens to be one written by the...
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Archaeology marches on! Carnivals to catch up
Testing, grading, trying to correct errors, and meanwhile progress continues. Four Stone Hearth’s 40th edition is out today at the redoubtable Remote Central — but I missed #39 at Hominin Dental...
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Schadenfreude alert: Turkish creationist gets three-year sentence
Tape up your face to keep from smiling too broadly, schadenfreude being a sin or close to it. Turkish creationist, bully and general gluteal carbuncle Adnan Oktar got sentenced to three years in prison...
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Torturing children, the Constitution, and a teacher’s duty to protect children
This is the device Ohio teacher John Freshwater was using to shock students and brand them with crosses: A BD-10A high-frequency generator tester for leak detection, from Electro-Technic Products,...
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Alberta: Academic freedom, or shackles?
Alberta, Canada’s legislature passed a bill that allows parents to pull kids out of the classroom if evolution is taught, or almost anything else that the parents deem counter to their own religion....
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The article the British Chiropractic Association hopes you will not read
Science-based Medicine carried this article yesterday, and several other blogs have joined in. Below is the article Simon Singh wrote for which he is being sued for libel by the professional...
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Slight fluctuations from 1998′s record heat doesn’t mean warming is done
Sometimes you find rational discussion and good information in the newspaper. This story moved on the McClatchy wire last August (I just recently came across it): Drop in world temperatures fuels...
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Virginia county judge tells Cuccinelli to cool his jets
Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, a heckler of higher education in his state (and probably all states) and a climate science heretic, must wait to get the information he asks of the...
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Fly your flag February 12 for Lincoln’s birthday
President’s Day is next week. The U.S. Flag Code urges Americans to fly Old Glory on Lincoln’s birthday, on February 12, anyway. That’s today! Is your flag waving? More: Norman Gasbarro debunking...
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February 12, Lincoln’s birthday: Fly your flag!
President’s Day is next week. The U.S. Flag Code urges Americans to fly Old Glory on Lincoln’s birthday, on February 12, anyway. That’s today! Is your flag waving? More: Norman Gasbarro debunking...
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