Luskin: Book Banning? Woke Forces Know All About That; They Practiced on Us

academic freedom, adults, atheists, Big Tech, book banning, book burning, Books, Casey Luskin, censorship, classrooms, conservatives, creationism, curricula, Dawkins Test, Dover Area School District, Evolution, free speech, geologists, government, Homosexuality, Intelligent Design, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, liberals, media, misinformation, natural selection, News, News Media, Of Pandas and People, Parents, Pennsylvania, progressives, racial injustice, Richard Dawkins, scientific literature, students, The Daily Wire, United States, wokeness
"Those 49 words — suggesting that students consult a library book if they wanted to learn more about a scientific idea — were too much for the thought police." Source
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Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charleston, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Evolution, history, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Lake Superior, primary sources, Races of Man, Racism, Royal Agricultural College, S. P. Woodward, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States
Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Source
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#5 Story of 2022: The Rise of Totalitarian Science

British Medical Journal, Canada, censorship, churches, civilization, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, discrimination, disinformation, eugenics, Evolution News, Facebook, free speech, government, Joe Biden, Jonathan Turley, Justin Trudeau, misinformation, National Public Radio, Nazi Germany, Pfizer Inc., Quebec, Ron Johnson, scientism, Social Darwinism, Surgeon General, totalitarian science, Twitter, United States, unvaccinated, vaccination mandates, vaccine, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Wisconsin, YouTube videos
Now, facts are becoming clearer — and so are the momentous consequences of the pandemic for our culture. Source
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Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

Children’s Hospital, clitoris, Culture & Ethics, Europe, gender affirmation, Gender Dysphoria, hysterectomy, information, Jason Rantz, KTTH, Medicine, mental health, metoidioplasty, Michael Egnor, National Health Service, patients, penis, scrotum, Seattle, sex change, surgery, teenagers, testicles, testicular implants, United States, University of Washington, vaginoplasty
One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Source
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Where the Abortion Debate Goes from Here

abortion, Americans United for Life, Australia, Catherine Glenn Foster, Center for Human Exceptionalism, Constitution, Culture & Ethics, Discovery Institute, Dobbs v. Jackson, Europe, federal courts, human rights, Humanize, media, Medicine, North America, pro-life movement, public policy, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court, United States, Wesley Smith
On a new podcast, host Wesley Smith and guest Catherine Glenn Foster discuss the Dobbs decision. Source
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Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

Adolf Hitler, Carrie Buck, Catholics, Center for Science & Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, forced sterilization, history, John West, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., religious leaders, Richard Weikart, scientists, Supreme Court, United States
One of the most famous instances was Carrie Buck, sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Source
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Will Earth BioGenome Project Vindicate Darwin?

agriculture, Big Data, bioindustry, biology, Canis familiaris, chihuahua, China, conservation, Darwin's Dilemma, Darwinism, Earth BioGenome Project, ecology, eukaryotes, Evolution, genomes, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Mark Blaxter, mastiff, Medicine, Paul Chien, phylogenetics, PNAS, sequencing, species, Sweden, United States
Compare the latest project to sequence everything to other megaprojects that may or may not answer evolutionary questions. Source
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For Evolution, Monarch Butterfly Migration Is a Mystery

animal behavior, antennae, biology, butterflies, Canada, circadian clock, compound eyes, Danaus plexippus, Evolution, genomes, Intelligent Design, latitude, magnetic compass, Mexico, migration, milkweed, monarch butterfly, navigation, neurobiology, Stonehenge, sun compass, United States
It typically takes up to three generations of butterflies to make the complete journey. This means that the navigation information is genetically programmed. Source
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Luskin at The Federalist — Freedom Is Threatened; Now Will You Listen?

anti-science, Atheism, Ball State University, Big Tech, BioEssays, Canceled Science, Casey Luskin, conspiracy theorists, corporate media, Darwinian theory, eric hedin, Evolution, free speech, information suppression, intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, News Media, power, schools, Soviet Union, survey, The Federalist, United States, University of Michigan, Wikipedia
Critics of Darwinian theory have faced exactly such a campaign — not just recently but going back a couple of decades. Source
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Honored by Statue, Democratic South Carolina Senator Said Some Blacks “Near Akin to Monkey”

Africans, baboons, ballot boxes, Benjamin Tillman, black inferiority, Caucasians, Civil War, Culture & Ethics, Democratic Party, Ellenton riot, Evolution, evolutionary racism, historical figures, lynching, missing link, monkeys, political rights, Racism, scientific racism, South Carolina, statues, stealing elections, U.S. Senate, United States
Benjamin Tillman was a monster. He publicly defended lynchings. He drew on evolutionary racism to preach black inferiority. Source
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