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Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
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My take on Jason Arday and the journal Nature, published in The Chronicle of Higher Education – Why Evolution Is True
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (183+ words) A week ago I wrote a critique of a really misguided (and unsigned) editorial in Nature, blaming the death of Jason Arday on his hounding by a racist press as well as “systemic racism” in academia. You can see that…...
Friday: Hili dialogue
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1735+ words) It’s also National Macademia Nut Day (along with cashews, this is the top of the nut scale), Eat An Extra Dessert Day, and National Chianti Day. Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by…...
Daniel Diermeier of Vanderbilt endorses institutional neutrality on Fox News
2+ week, 4+ day ago (659+ words) Why Evolution Is True Daniel Diermeier, previously the Provost of the University of Chicago, moved to Vanderbilt University in 2020 where he became the Chancellor (i.e., the Boss). I wish he’d stayed here, for he might have become President after Bob Zimmer…...
Still more on Jason Arday
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1397+ words) I thought the media fracas about Jason Arday would settle down soon after he died (likely via suicide), but it hasn’t. Now people are busy affixing blame for his behavior, and death, with blame attaching to his fabulism, his plagiarism…...