Ruse appears to have been a relentless enforcer of Darwinian orthodoxy behind the scenes, including a blistering attack on philosopher Jerry Fodor, who questioned it.
Tag: Suzan Mazur
Science journalist Suzan Mazur remembers Richard Lewontin
She remembers him as “opposing the establishment on Darwinian dogma.”
At Oscillations: Information on the Linnean Society Virtual Meeting (June 28–29)
Oscillations is science writer Suzan Mazur’s blog. Mazur draws attention to the Linnean Society’s virtual conference, Evolution ‘On Purpose’: Teleonomy in Living Systems: “Living systems exhibit an internal teleology, the full implications of which have not been explored. This meeting will address various aspects of this phenomenon, including its scope and meaning, and its many forms and facets.”
At Oscillations: Cytogeneticist Antonio Lima-de-Faria torches obscurantism in science in new book, Suzan Mazur reports
He was an early non-Darwinian evolutionist (1988 is pretty early), mainly a structuralist. He continues to publish books at nearly 100 years of age.
At Oscillations: Suzan Mazur wonders what’s got into Eugene Koonin and Dieter Braun
Readers may recall Eugene Koonin as not particularly a Darwinian. As of 2018, Dieter Braun was more ambivalent. But Mazur notes that something has changed. Is it some light they have seen or has someone warned them to be more submissive?
Suzan Mazur interviews virologist Luis Villareal on COVID-19
Virologist Luis Villarreal: All of these RNA viruses exist as quasispecies, which is a population of variants that hover around the average.
Asked at Oscillations: Why is the Khan Academy so stuck on “natural selection” in evolution?
Suzan Mazur notes that the Khan Academy has tended to promote natural selection as “evolution” generally.
Is COVID-19 alive?
Villarreal and Mazur introduce a term that will be new to many— and relevant to viruses like COVID-19: quasispecies
The College Board Exams (Darwin-only evolution) meets COVID-19
Independent journalist Suzan Mazur followed up with the College Board testing on evolution knowledge among U.S. students, which seems to test mainly for familiarity with the Darwin sect’s interpretation.
Well, we can spare you the suspense, dear readers, by revealing that they weren’t thrilled to hear a critical question.
At Oscillations: “Natural selection” issue stirs again at College Boards
It goes on and gets way better. You’ll be amazed at the idiocracy that the testing establishment takes for granted and promotes. Read at her site about how one testcrat even administered the same test twice, a fact advertised on the internet… and more. By the way, why don’t we hear much about this from other science writers?
At Oscillations: How the College Board skews students toward Darwinism
Is the stuff she identifies designed to insulate students from the ferment going on in biology or is just the outcome of educrats’ self-insulation…? Maybe both?
Suzan Mazur: Richard Dawkins heads for Mekong River in Viet Nam
We didn’t know that Suzan Mazur, author of Darwin Overthrown: Hello Mechanobiology, had interviewed Richard Dawkins in Manhattan (2008) let alone that Dawkins is now headed for the Mekong.
Suzan Mazur: World Science Foundation Evening on Mars “marred,” so to speak, by a second-rate panel
She also reveals that a two-page survey was handed out, asking a number of none-o’-yer-business questions on behalf of “Audience Research & Analysis, an organization that helps government agencies and cultural agencies to “move forward with decision research.”
Suzan Mazur: World Science Festival is purveying an out-of-date Darwinism
She notes: “The problem with Wilson’s perspective is that Darwin’s theory of natural selection has been discredited. Biology is no longer the descriptive science it once was.”
Astronomer Martin Rees reacts to Suzan Mazur’s Darwin Overthrown
The story addresses the way Rees has been in the background of creative thinkers in biology who are grappling with what we now know. Non-Darwinian things.