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Denyse O'Leary
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November 8, 2020
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Progressive mag blog sours on Cancel Culture when a progressive speaker gets Canceled

Denyse O'Leary
November 8, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
In reality, Cancel Culture, practised systematically, will tend to reward those with the fewest original ideas to offer and that should be reason enough to cancel it. People who can’t deal with ideas that upset them should just not be at a university for the same reasons as people who can't stand the sight of blood should not work in an emergency room. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 25, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Psychology
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Apparently, canceling Jordan Peterson didn’t really work

Denyse O'Leary
October 25, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Psychology
Douglas Murray: Peterson watchers will also notice that he signed off by saying that “With God’s grace and mercy” he hoped to complete some of the tasks which he lays out in it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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That notorious ID paper was the one most downloaded from the Journal…

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review
Eventually, people, we are going to have to start rewarding the Darwinians for banning and persecuting advocates of design in nature. Look, guys, it's only fair. Mediocrities steam themselves into near oblivion to destroy the idea and their efforts only fan the flames. Sadly, all we wanted was a serious discussion. We never asked them to be Roman candles. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 10, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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A petition is going the rounds urging that Richard Dawkins be allowed to speak at Trinity College

Denyse O'Leary
October 10, 2020
Academic Freedom, Atheism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
ID types are urging people to sign the petition. Sign it if you like Uncommon Descent. Because we are just so NOT Cancel Culture. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 7, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
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Ethan Siegel at Forbes on “finally” making the United States a “scientific nation”

Denyse O'Leary
October 7, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science
Siegel: “It is a fundamentally misinformative act to present multiple sides of a controversial issue equally when the scientific consensus overwhelmingly favors one perspective.” Actually, consensus is achieved in many ways, including some that contribute to the likelihood that the consensus will be wrong, no matter how many experts believe it. In fact, the surest way to often be wrong is to adopt the very attitude Siegel displays here. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 6, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Education, Intelligent Design
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End of tenure forecast. What about academic freedom?

Denyse O'Leary
October 6, 2020
Academic Freedom, Education, Intelligent Design
That may reduce tuition fee bloat but it won’t be good for academic freedom, a point that Vedder acknowledges: “The rise in political correctness has been accompanied by a decline in tolerance of alternative points of view.” The thing is, absence of academic freedom makes many degrees worth much less—unless all a student wants to know is how to be unemployed and resentful, with a bunch of letters after his name. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 28, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion
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Richard Dawkins is getting canceled again

Denyse O'Leary
September 28, 2020
Academic Freedom, Atheism, Intelligent Design, Religion
Apparently, when Richard Dawkins said he was an atheist, some people didn’t realize that he rejected Islam along with Christianity. The stark reality is that the post-Christian student does not want to win a debate but rather to cancel it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 20, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Media
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J. R. Miller vid faces YouTube restrictions

Denyse O'Leary
September 20, 2020
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Media
In a world where Netflix is streaming a show about underage sexpots, it’s hard to imagine what the Valley’s problem with this stuff could be. But a friend suggests that at roughly the 7-minute mark, the discussion turns to anti-Christian bias in Google search and recommends—whoops!— alternative services. Okay, so LIKE the vid and find a non-Google search service. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 13, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Books of interest, Culture, Intelligent Design
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A fond remembrance of the 2005 book, “On Bullsh*t”

Denyse O'Leary
September 13, 2020
Academic Freedom, Books of interest, Culture, Intelligent Design
Gunderman: As discourse moves from television to Twitter, it can be further degraded into mere flamboyance. What matters is no longer speaking the truth but simply attracting and holding attention. Getting it right gives way to getting noticed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 8, 2020
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Forrest Mims honored in dedication of new electronics book

Denyse O'Leary
September 8, 2020
Academic Freedom, Books of interest, Intelligent Design
Readers may recall that Forrest M. Mims III, despite his gifts in electronics and citizen science, was denied a column in Scientific American because he was not a Darwinist or a supporter of live baby dismemberment. Read More ›
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August 30, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Ethics, Free Speech, Lessons of History, Racism, rhetoric
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A Sandia National Labs Whistleblower on Culture form Marxism imposition by HR Department

kairosfocus
August 30, 2020
Academic Freedom, Control vs Anarchy, Defending our Civilization, Ethics, Free Speech, Lessons of History, Racism, rhetoric

Yes, it’s real: And if this is being “mainstreamed” at Sandia National Labs, it’s going to be all but pervasive in Government and in the sort of corporations that typically get government contracts. Across today, DV, I intend to put up screen shots from his presentation, as points to ponder. As a start, clip 1: Clip 2: Clip 3: Petersen’s caveats: Let me add, on HR etc vs surveys of actual black Americans: Similarly, though there is a general violence problem in the US and such is echoed in policing, US DoJ figures as cited give a picture different from the narrative (especially if we recognise that, sadly African American youth are heavily over-represented in violent crimes, as perpetrators and Read More ›