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Geneticist James D. Watson (1928–2025): His Contradictory Legacy

Watson and Crick set the stage for what philosopher Stephen Meyer calls the God Hypothesis and yet Watson was a bigoted atheist and champion of pseudoscientific racism

James Watson’s science legacy is for the ages. It would be fair if his ignoble thinking about faith and race faded into the background after some time.

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Science Cancellation Continues: Meet the Latest Victim

Marty Rowland, an editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, has been fired for publishing an article arguing the carbon dioxide and a warming climate are not problems

Nothing great is at stake in what happened to Kimmel. In the domination of science by ideology, by the myth of “settled science,” the stakes couldn’t be more profound. 

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