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Thursday 13 March 2008

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Flordia Baptist Witness covers Ben Stein appearance in support of “Academic Freedom Act”

Thursday 13 March 2008 @ 3:05 pm

Florida legislators got a taste of Hollywood March 12 as actor-comedian Ben Stein brought his controversial film “Expelled” to Tallahassee to help lobby in favor of legislation to allow academic freedom when evolution is taught in Florida public schools.

Comments (0) | Posted in Intelligent Design, academic, bias, media

Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?

Tuesday 11 March 2008 @ 1:07 pm

Women earn most of America’s Ph.D.’s but lag in the physical sciences. Beware of plans to fix the ‘problem.’

Comments (0) | Posted in academic, sex and metropolis, sex politics

Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

Tuesday 4 March 2008 @ 4:20 pm

“As far Moses on Mount Sinai is concerned, it was either a supernatural cosmic event, which I don’t believe, or a legend, which I don’t believe either, or finally, and this is very probable, an event that joined Moses and the people of Israel under the effect of narcotics,” Shanon told Israeli public radio on Tuesday.

Comments (0) | Posted in academic, human nature, interesting, psychology, religion, society

Iowa to Astronomer: Don’t Be My Valentine

Thursday 14 February 2008 @ 12:17 pm

That is, Iowa’s board of regents has rejected an appeal from Dr. Guillermo Gonzalez, assistant professor of Astronomy at Iowa State University, to gain tenure. Not getting tenure is the equivalent of being fired.

Comments (0) | Posted in Intelligent Design, Political Correctness, academic, education

Intelligent design costs prof his job

Friday 8 February 2008 @ 10:57 am

Iowa State University regents, who earlier ruled against accepting evidence or hearing testimony from a professor in a dispute over the school’s denial of his tenure, now have turned down his appeal.

Comments (0) | Posted in Intelligent Design, Political Correctness, academic, bias, outrage, religion, science and nature

Video: college standards stiffer for women

Thursday 17 January 2008 @ 10:22 am

Video: college standards stiffer for women

Comments (0) | Posted in academic, education, human nature, sex and metropolis

Backers battle ISU professor’s tenure denial

Wednesday 28 November 2007 @ 7:42 pm

Advocates for Gonzalez said in a release distributed Tuesday that they will hold a news conference at 11 a.m. Monday in Des Moines. There, they said, they will discuss documents they contend will prove that Gonzalez “lost his job” because he supports intelligent design, not because he was deficient as a scholar. Gonzalez’s backers say an appeal to the Iowa Board of Regents and possibly a lawsuit would be the next steps.

Comments (0) | Posted in Intelligent Design, academic, bias

Male elementary-education majors say they are needed minority

Monday 19 November 2007 @ 9:12 pm

When the students that Kingsley Bennett tutors found out he was going to intern at their school, Eagle’s Nest Elementary in southwest Orlando, they were so excited that there were high-fives all around.

Comments (0) | Posted in academic

Ben Stein Confronts Dominance of Darwinian Thought in New Film

Monday 1 October 2007 @ 3:11 pm

In Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Stein – who has also worked as a lawyer, an economist, an author and social commentator – embarks on a journey across the globe to answer the long disputed question “Were we designed or are we simply the end result of an ancient mud puddle struck by lightning?”

Comments (0) | Posted in Intelligent Design, academic

Psychology professor argues that the Constitution protects professor-student love

Tuesday 14 August 2007 @ 11:32 pm

“The right to romance,” he says, is protected by the Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. University rules that bar professor-student relationships are as dangerous as policies that dictate whether professors can believe in God or what they can say in the classroom, he argues.

Comments (0) | Posted in academic, misconduct, outrage, sex and metropolis, sex politics