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Cancel Culture

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 4, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Maori creationism is okay in New Zealand schools; objectors could be booted from NZ’s Royal Society

Denyse O'Leary
December 4, 2021
Academic Freedom, Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Sadly, the Darwinians are now learning the value of the very intellectual freedom they have so long denied to non-Darwinians of all stripes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 31, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review
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Canceled exoplanets prof Dorian Abbot at the Wall Street Journal

Denyse O'Leary
October 31, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design, Peer review
The thing is, in 2017, it was ultra-progressive places like Evergreen where the liberal biology teachers could be run off campus. Now it’s MIT, folks... Either Woke goes or science does. But bureaucrats find it easier to cater to Woke than to resist. The more bureaucrats there are, the less university there will be. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 29, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At The Times of London: “Charles Darwin will be next if his great defender is toppled”

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Huh? What? If Huxley (or Darwin) is cancelled, “the practice of science itself no longer matters.” Well, that’s true but for Cancel Culture, that’s a feature, not a bug. It shows their immense power, generally in the robes of victimhood. Has none of these people been paying attention to the war on math and the war on science? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 24, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
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Berkeley scientist and center director resigns over MIT’s deplatforming of exoplanet scientist

Denyse O'Leary
October 24, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
Note how little difference facts of science make in these matters — whether Abbot has anything to say that contributes to our knowledge does not matter of the Woke are displeased. Darwinism was the original Wokeness in science — immune to fact-based critique. The people who thought that that didn’t concern them are now formally wrong. It’s everywhere now. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 22, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne learns s thing or three about censorship – when he’s not doling it out

Denyse O'Leary
October 22, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
The explanation for Coyne’s sudden support for academic freedom might be fairly simple: He thought that Cancel Culture would only ever be deployed against people who think that nature shows evidence of design. He never expected it to come for people HE values. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 19, 2021
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Climate change, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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Here’s more on Canceled prof Dorian Abbot’s talk on climate and exoplanets — Thursday

Denyse O'Leary
October 19, 2021
Climate change, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
Abbot: "Whether a planet could be habitable is determined primarily by the planet's climate. This lecture will address insights we've gained from studying Earth's climate and how those have been used to make predictions about which exoplanets might be habitable, and how astronomical observations indicate the possibility of new climatic regimes not found on modern Earth…" [The Woke are, of course, welcome to scream, assault passersby, and torch cars and buildings in the comfort of their own Zoom meeting at the same time.] Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 14, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Classifier of life forms Linnaeus gets the chop due to concerns about racism

Denyse O'Leary
October 14, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
The friend who sent this in wonders, will the Woke come for Darwin too? It’s a bit more complicated in that case. No one, after all, strikes a serious blow against science by attacking contemporary Darwinism. Darwinism is really more about atheism than about science — and the Woke are in a war on science, not on atheism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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October 12, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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Expert in exoplanets gets the better of Outrage, Inc.

Denyse O'Leary
October 12, 2021
Academic Freedom, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
One thing that’s coming out of all these stories is that those who do NOT cower and mumble abject apologies to the gleefully unlettered tend to do better. Mobs have only the authority they seize from cowards. And who wants to defend an abject coward? He’ll sell you out too. A person who takes a stand can be defended. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Jerry Coyne as opponent of Cancel Culture

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
One used to hear many people say “Cancel Culture is so ridiculous, it will go away soon.” Well, that’s not happening. Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, who usually writes about other matters, discusses two representative incidents. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 20, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Off topic: The Cancel Culture ragtag volunteer army of censors

Denyse O'Leary
June 20, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
Malicious envy was always out there but before social media it could rarely assemble so large a mob. But that’s a challenge, not a prophecy. We ID types can help fend them off. We are used to fighting Cancel Culture. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 19, 2021
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Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
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At Physical Chemistry Letters: The Perils of Politicizing Science

Denyse O'Leary
June 19, 2021
Culture, Intelligent Design, Science
Cancel Culture: People who could not advance by achievement advance by thinning out the ranks above them by denouncing the societal sins du jour that they can stick on them, truly or falsely. NOT going out on a limb here: Most Cancel Culture types actually wouldn’t care about the same offenses, if practised by people who advance their interests. Mediocrities can’t afford to be that fussy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 13, 2021
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Evolution, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Science historian Michael Flannery offers some thoughts on the drive to deplatform Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
May 13, 2021
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Racism
Darwin’s racism doesn’t make his theory — either in its original form or any current iteration — right or wrong. The theory must be addressed on the merits of the case. So no deplatforming. Bring on the debate. Read More ›