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Tag: Forrest Mims

Climate change Ecology Intelligent Design

Forrest Mims has a new paper in the works at Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

He was named one of 50 best brains in science by Discover Magazine in 2008, despite the torrent of bigotry over his non-Darwinian approach to nature.

Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 Author News Comment(1)
Culture Intelligent Design Science

Professional skeptic Michael Shermer gets it about what’s going wrong at the new Woke Scientific American

It turns out, Michael Shermer has his own sad story about how he got dumped by Scientific American after a long career as a columnist there (since April 2001) — as he tells us in “A case study in how identity politics poisons science.”

Posted on November 19, 2021November 19, 2021 Author News Comments(3)
Culture Intelligent Design Science

Rob Sheldon on Scientific American’s foray into politics, backing Joe Biden

I was a devoted SciAm fan growing up. I collected other people’s old copies and had a collection going back to the 60’s. Then SciAm was bought out by some big publishing firm. And my favorite column, the Amateur Scientist by Forrest M. Mims III , was cancelled because Mims was a Christian.

Posted on September 16, 2020September 16, 2020 Author News Comments(10)
Books of interest Intellectual freedom Intelligent Design

Forrest Mims honored in dedication of new electronics book

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.

Posted on September 8, 2020September 8, 2020 Author News Comments(3)

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