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"Creationism Whistleblower"
Zack Kopplin Writing in The Daily Beast (December 28, 2015), Zack Kopplin reviews the last decade of antievolution strategies — with the assistance of a former employee of the Discovery Institute, the de facto institutional home of "intelligent design" creationism. The Discovery…
Answer Monday
This, this is Diplocaulus A lepospondyl amphibian Praise, praise, praise to Ron Pine: He won himself the blue ribbon. Unfortunately, the commenting system here broke over the weekend. (It is being fixed now.) Dan Phelps was the first person to e-mail the correct answer to the NCSE…
Alfred G. Gilman dies
The eminent pharmacologist and biochemist Alfred G. Gilman — a member of NCSE's Advisory Council — died on December 23, 2015, at the age of 74, according to The New York Times (December 24, 2015). Gilman and Martin Rodbell were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1994…
What We’re Reading
Here’s just a few items to keep you busy over the weekend. Best wishes for the holiday season from all of us at NCSE. The North Carolina Town That’s Scared of Solar Panels, Revisited, Vox, December 18, 2015 — Dave Roberts re-examines the town which blocked a solar farm—one worry was reportedly…
Fossil Friday
Whose snout is this, from Permian days, On your computer is showing? Submit your guess (ten words or less) If you believe you are knowing…
The Royal Astronomical Society adds its voice for evolution
The chorus of support for the teaching of evolution continues, with a statement from the Royal Astronomical Society, adopted in 2011. In its statement, the society expresses (PDF) its support for "the teaching of evolution, geophysics, astronomy and other scientific theories in school…
Just What America Needs: Another Creationist “Museum”
Stunning! Interactive! Engaging! Creationist! That’s how the Institute for Creation Research might describe a new facility it proposes to build near its headquarters in Dallas. The prospective Dallas Museum of Science and Earth History” would be the “culmination of decades of study and research”…
Was 2015 the Wildest Year Yet?
Every December I cross the San Francisco Bay to head into the “big city” to go to the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting. If you haven’t been to the meeting before, it is one of the largest scientific conferences in the country. Several tens of thousands of people come from around the…
A Marriage Made in Heaven
Wedding bells are ringing in Seattle, Washington, and Richardson, Texas: the Discovery Institute and the Foundation for Thought and Ethics are getting hitched! They’ve had a long and surprisingly secretive courtship, but we at NCSE are glad to see these crazy kids doing the honest thing. The…

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