I’m still chuckling over this breathless post by Paul Cella at What’s Wrong with the World. Once again a conservative with no obvious acquaintance with working biologists is touting the ‘news’ that a ‘revolution’ in how biologists do biology is in the offing.Larry Moran applies the cold water.
Harvard professor Marc Hauser (author of Moral Minds), about whom I blogged last July, has taken a leave of absence from his post at Harvard while the university looks into questions about the data backing up papers of his, dating back to the mid 90s at least.
Well, I’m embarrassed to admit how long it took me, considering how long I’ve been eligible, but today I’m an official member of the NASW.
Larry Moran thinks Jerry Coyne stepped in it. Again. I hope this was just an attempt to (over-)simplify evolution for the readers of The Nation. In that case it might be (just) excusable. But I can’t wait until the creationists get a hold of this review. They’ll be delighted to learn that, according to Jerry… Continue reading Coyne v. Futuyma
Now that both sides have vented, Brandon Watson weighs in with some thoughts on Sam Harris’s TED Talk.
