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Dorian Abbot

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Denyse O'Leary
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November 27, 2021
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Convergent evolution, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Exoplanets: The same laws of physics means similar life forms

Denyse O'Leary
November 27, 2021
Convergent evolution, Exoplanets, Intelligent Design
Even on Earth, life forms of widely differing ancestry, arrive at the same solutions to physics problems, leading scientists note. On Simon Conway Morris's view, life forms that fly on exoplanets will do what birds, bats, and insects do here, they say. Intelligent species may even look roughly like us. 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 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 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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November 30, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
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Snowball Earth prof attacked by Cancel Culture

Denyse O'Leary
November 30, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Intelligent Design
Jacobson warns, “What is so disturbing is the large number of graduate and post-doctoral students who signed the list of demands. I warned in 2017 that STEM would not be immune to the social justice (and racial) warfare tearing through universities.” Read More ›