Category: Intellectual freedom
When the student speech code enforcer rises to a mid-level government job in 2020 …
| October 10, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, News |
The students who are allowed to indulge in censorship today will be social leaders tomorrow who do not see the point of protecting people, places, or ideas they don’t like. more
Italian Wikipedia may shut down due to new laws against “giving offence”?
| October 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Intellectual freedom, News |
Could well be legit threat if Canadian experience is any guide. more
Coming to terms with Norway’s accused mass murder, and others
| September 23, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, News |
Scott gains credibility with us right away when he points to historical events instead of evoking some flapdoodle about human evolution. He could be wrong, but at least it’s discussable. more
Culture: Does cutting off communications restore order?
| September 18, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Information tends to lessen anxiety even if it is bad news. As news gatherers know, before too long, more credible sources prevail over less credible ones. more
How one student paid for questioning Darwinism
| September 16, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
It was so painful and frightening that Evelyn had decided that in order to secure her future she should never again mention her doubts about neo-Darwinian evolution. In addition, she resolved that she should also never again speak to me. more
Banned Books Week: Never a bonfire around when you need one?
| September 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Banned Books Week pleads for special protection for those books that represent the leading edge of where the establishment wants to go next, not for intellectual freedom in general. These friends of books never focus on bans initiated by the (true) establishment. more
Intellectual freedom: Because it is real, it has enemies
| September 6, 2011 | Posted by News under Canada, Intellectual freedom, News |
There is an enemy occupation, but there is still a free world. more
University watch: Liberal profs starting to complain too?
| September 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
The problem is, the “liberals” publishing the stern critiques are probably old style “liberal arts” types – when liberal arts meant something rational and relevant. more
The criminal hyperlink, and how it affects you
| September 1, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Canada, Culture, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Can governments succeed in getting control of the Internet? Probably not, ultimately. But they can target you in an inquisition from Hell while they slowly fail. An inquisition on any subject that a pressure group has made important. more
California Science Center answerable for canning non-Darwin film
| August 29, 2011 | Posted by News under Cambrian explosion, Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, News |
Figures the official Darwinists would arise from their leather-bottomed chairs to try to suppress a film that shows the public the knowledge that the science czars were depriving us of. This time it did not work. more
Expelled movie now on YouTube, one vid
| August 1, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Video |
Here. Polish subtitles. Embed disabled. Follow UD News at Twitter! more
Interview: Colorado lawyer Barry Arrington on recent “free speech about Darwin’s errors” win at Colorado university
| July 21, 2011 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design |
— for every student with the courage to speak up, I suspect there are dozens who have been effectively cowed by the high priests of liberal orthodoxy. more
Evolution of intellectual freedom
| July 20, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom |
In panel form. more
Why the second law of thermodynamics really is a threat to Darwinist tenure
| June 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Mathematics |
Granville Sewell, math prof, satirist of silly ideas, and apology recipient (from math journal), has this to say about Darwinists’ attempt to rescue their theory from the Second Law of Thermodynamics: Organization always decrees, left to itself. Anyone who has made such an argument is familiar with the standard reply: the Earth is an open… more
Intellectual freedom: Him now, you next
| June 25, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom |
Unless, of course, it’s okay that bureaucrats and social engineers do your thinking for you … in which case, you won’t be next, you’ll just be toothpaste. “In Defense of ‘Hurtful’ Speech” (The Wall Street Journal June 24, 2011) Geert Wilders speaks out on an issue of critical importance to the intelligent designcommunity: free thought:… more
Worried about getting a good affordable education in Darwinworld?
| June 22, 2011 | Posted by News under Intellectual freedom, Peer review |
Naomi Schaefer Riley discusses “The Economic Upside to Ending Tenure” ( Chronicle of Higher Education, June 19, 2011): In her new book, The Faculty Lounges: and Other Reasons Why You Won’t Get the College Education You Paid For (Ivan R. Dee), Naomi Schaefer Riley argues that faculty tenure is among the factors contributing to the… more
She said it: Nancy Pearcey’s thoughtful article on how “Christianity is a Science-starter, not a Science-stopper”
| June 17, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Christian Darwinism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Education, Ethics, Evolution, Expelled, Free Speech, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Media, Philosophy, Religion, Science, science education, Society |
One of the most common objections to design thought is the idea that it is about the improper injection of the alien supernatural into the world of science. (That is itself based on a strawman misrepresentation of design thought, as was addressed here a few days ago.) However, there is an underlying root, a common… more
He said it: Prof Lewontin’s strawman “justification” for imposing a priori materialist censorship on origins science
| June 15, 2011 | Posted by kairosfocus under academic freedom, Atheism, Creationism, Darwinism, Design inference, ID Foundations, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Religion, Science, science education, theistic evolution |
Yesterday, in the P Z Myers quote-mining and distortion thread, I happened to cite Lewontin’s infamous 1997 remark in his NYRB article, “Billions and Billions of Demons,” on a priori imposition of materialist censorship on origins science, which reads in the crucial part: It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel… more
Darwin and the Beauty Pageant
| June 9, 2011 | Posted by DonaldM under Darwinism, Evolution, Eyes Rolling, Free Speech, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Science, Society |
Lest there be any lingering doubt about how far Darwinians might go in the enforcement of the dogma, it now appears that even beauty pageant contestants are not immune to consequences for failing to toe the Darwinian line. Contestants in this year’s Miss USA pageant are being asked questions about whether evolution should be taught… more
Is Amazon now enforcing review standards?
| June 8, 2011 | Posted by News under academic freedom, Intellectual freedom |
At Cannuckian Yankee’s comment 14 on UD Contest post “Why do people refuse to read books they are attacking?” (now being judged), we learn, There’s a guy on Amazon who’s extremely anti-ID. He comments on or reviews just about every ID book, but it’s quite obvious that he never reads the books. He goes by… more