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Culture Darwinism Intelligent Design

Remember convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Harvard’s Evolutionary Dynamics lab?

The serial sex offender had an office at Harvard and visited dozens of times. It was likely a way Epstein was currying influence with Harvard, the way he did with many science notables. Darwinism was a sure bet. The Washington Post offers a few more details.

Posted on May 2, 2020May 2, 2020 Author News Comment(0)
Ethics Intelligent Design Science

John Horgan on Jeffrey Epstein and the decadence of science

Horgan: As genuine progress has stalled, hype has surged. A 2015 study of biomedical papers found that between 1974 and 2014 the frequency of terms such as “novel,” “innovative” and “unprecedented” increased 15-fold.

Posted on November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 Author News Comment(1)
Culture Intelligent Design Science

Jeffrey Epstein certainly lies in an unquiet grave…

The trouble is, as Michael Egnor says, “consensus science” meant not denouncing Epstein. If it now means sanctioning regular witch hunts against anyone who knew the guy, we haven’t made any progress toward rational assessment. Or maybe it’s all just their form of fun.

Posted on November 9, 2019November 9, 2019 Author News Comments(28)
Culture Intelligent Design Naturalism

Re Jeffrey Epstein: Let’s not complicate the issues

Epstein wasn’t even a scientist. It wasn’t like trying to figure out how to deal with a Nazi who has a cure for cancer. Don’t let the people who are implicated invoke high and difficult questions to cloud over plain old wrongdoing.

Posted on September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Author News Comment(0)
Culture Darwinism Intelligent Design

Science organizations continue to reel from Jeffrey Epstein “bombshells”

A MIT Media Lab director kept Epstein’s name off the records in such a way as to make it hard to claim they did not know there was a problem.

Posted on September 27, 2019September 27, 2019 Author News Comment(1)
Culture Darwinism Intelligent Design

Michael Egnor on Jeffrey Epstein: “Consensus science” meant not denouncing him

Listen to this: People’s lives may depend on other people not speaking out. For example about design in nature.

Posted on September 24, 2019September 24, 2019 Author News Comment(1)
Culture Darwinism Intelligent Design

Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the science world: Fallout

In the wake of Epstein’s apparent suicide in prison, his predilection for funding science organizations as a virtuous cover make for reading worthy of an airport potboiler. But from some of this, there may be something to be learned.

Posted on September 7, 2019September 7, 2019 Author News Comment(0)
Culture Darwinism Intelligent Design Naturalism Science

Science pros reckon with the fallout from Jeffrey Epstein – and it’s grim

Rogers asks, “How did these geniuses find themselves cozying up to a child rapist?” and provides us with some of the many answers that will filter in.

Posted on August 28, 2019August 29, 2019 Author News Comments(7)
Culture Darwinism Intelligent Design

More pop science fallout re Jeffrey Epstein: Stu Pivar and PZ Myers

No, no, Pivar and Myers didn’t do anything except fall out—with litigation threatened. But there’s an Epstein connection in the story—as there seems to be to a lot of things Darwin these says. And, say what you want, that guy Epstein sure picked his targets.

Posted on August 24, 2019August 25, 2019 Author News Comments(5)
Darwinism Intelligent Design

Darwinists may be paying a price for pop science celebrity: Jeffrey Epstein

The late Jeffrey Epstein cultivated a lot of people, including Darwinists who were pop science faves. In the aftermath, they must be wishing he’d never heard of them.

Posted on August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 Author News Comments(5)
Culture Intelligent Design Naturalism

Now Steve Pinker is getting #MeToo’d, at Inside Higher Ed over Jeffrey Epstein

The rap against cognitive psychologist Pinker, who always seemed ready with a Darwinian explanation for everything, is that he offered some interpretation of language to Epstein’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz.

Posted on July 17, 2019July 17, 2019 Author News Comment(1)
Culture Intelligent Design Naturalism

Jeff Epstein’s cultural dumpster fire spreads to ID vs. evo controversies

Just because people are in the news doesn’t mean they did anything. It rather shows how a bad actor can change the news picture.

Posted on July 11, 2019July 11, 2019 Author News Comments(5)

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