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Minding the Sciences

  • Without Dissent, Knowledge Can’t Evolve
    November 14, 2025

    Without Dissent, Knowledge Can’t Evolve

  • Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble
    November 10, 2025

    Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble

  • Let’s Talk About Sex… Like Adults. Because the Universities Won’t.
    October 14, 2025

    Let’s Talk About Sex… Like Adults. Because the Universities Won’t.

  • Short Take: Science Has a Publicist
    September 3, 2025

    Short Take: Science Has a Publicist

  • The Climate Crisis That Never Comes—and the Fear It Fuels
    August 26, 2025

    The Climate Crisis That Never Comes—and the Fear It Fuels

  • The War on mRNA—Apocalypse Imminent?
    August 26, 2025

    The War on mRNA—Apocalypse Imminent?

  • A Case for Integrating a Christian Worldview in the Science Classroom
    August 22, 2025

    A Case for Integrating a Christian Worldview in the Science Classroom

  • The Irreproducibility Crisis Is Producing an Irresponsibility Crisis in Government
    August 20, 2025

    The Irreproducibility Crisis Is Producing an Irresponsibility Crisis in Government

  • The Math Standards Ready to Trend on TikTok
    August 18, 2025

    The Math Standards Ready to Trend on TikTok

  • Professors Ask If Meat Allergy Ticks Should Be Set Loose To Save Earth
    August 15, 2025

    Professors Ask If Meat Allergy Ticks Should Be Set Loose To Save Earth

  • The Age-Old Love Affair Between Beauty and Science Is Making a Comeback
    August 12, 2025

    The Age-Old Love Affair Between Beauty and Science Is Making a Comeback

  • Federal Judge Upholds NSF Grant Terminations, Bolstering Trump’s Science Agenda
    August 8, 2025

    Federal Judge Upholds NSF Grant Terminations, Bolstering Trump’s Science Agenda

  • Judge Allows Trump’s NSF Directive to Stand During Legal Challenge
    August 8, 2025

    Judge Allows Trump’s NSF Directive to Stand During Legal Challenge

  • NIH’s New Rules Try to Curb Tech Abuses but Miss the Structural Rot in Research Funding
    July 30, 2025

    NIH’s New Rules Try to Curb Tech Abuses but Miss the Structural Rot in Research Funding

  • A New ‘Anti-Semitism Scale’ Reveals the Perils of Politicized Social Science
    July 28, 2025

    A New ‘Anti-Semitism Scale’ Reveals the Perils of Politicized Social Science

  • These Top Science Officials Love the Copy-Paste Function
    July 23, 2025

    These Top Science Officials Love the Copy-Paste Function

  • MIT Prof Slammed for HHS Report on Gender Care—But Science May Be on His Side
    July 15, 2025

    MIT Prof Slammed for HHS Report on Gender Care—But Science May Be on His Side

  • How U.S. Universities Helped China Build Its Weather Warfare Program
    July 10, 2025

    How U.S. Universities Helped China Build Its Weather Warfare Program

  • Top NSF Officials Used Duplicate Research to Boost Their Careers
    July 4, 2025

    Top NSF Officials Used Duplicate Research to Boost Their Careers

  • WATCH: Science Bargains with Trump, Protesters Storm NSF, and Slugs Go Solar
    July 2, 2025

    WATCH: Science Bargains with Trump, Protesters Storm NSF, and Slugs Go Solar

  • NSF Staff Says ‘Not in Our Building!’ Over HUD HQ Move-In—Did They Break the Law?
    June 30, 2025

    NSF Staff Says ‘Not in Our Building!’ Over HUD HQ Move-In—Did They Break the Law?

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: Evolution and Culture in 1920s America
    June 27, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: Evolution and Culture in 1920s America

  • WATCH: Science Gets Bad Budget News, Filling In the Details of Out of Africa, and Sharks Fear the Reaper
    June 25, 2025

    WATCH: Science Gets Bad Budget News, Filling In the Details of Out of Africa, and Sharks Fear the Reaper

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Prosecution
    June 20, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Prosecution

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Defense
    June 13, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Defense

  • WATCH: Turner on Science Funding Facts, Native Epidemics, and Dinosaur Calls
    June 12, 2025

    WATCH: Turner on Science Funding Facts, Native Epidemics, and Dinosaur Calls

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: “Inherit the Wind”
    June 10, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: “Inherit the Wind”

  • WATCH: NIH Director Bhattacharya Diagnoses COVID-19 ‘Failure,’ Prescribes Reforms to Make Bio-Medical Research Great Again
    June 7, 2025

    WATCH: NIH Director Bhattacharya Diagnoses COVID-19 ‘Failure,’ Prescribes Reforms to Make Bio-Medical Research Great Again

  • WATCH: Why Scientists Aren’t Really Leaving—and Why Chimps Aren’t 99% Human
    June 3, 2025

    WATCH: Why Scientists Aren’t Really Leaving—and Why Chimps Aren’t 99% Human

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