Academic mind control

The evolution establishment has been behaving precisely like Kuhn's description
of an aging prevailing paradigm, jealous of their power and prestige but weak
in their arguments. In their battle against Intelligent Design science, their
tactics are to refuse to answer the criticisms of the evolution model or deal
with the anomalies to the prevailing paradigm and to intimidate their critics
or impugn the motives the ones who cannot be intimidated. They use their power
to keep students of science from hearing what the design scientists are saying.


Consider two examples. According to the Columbus Dispatch (6/9/05), The Ohio
State University (OSU) is investigating the dissertation committee of a
doctoral candidate, whose thesis involves research into the reaction of
students, when they are presented with scientific criticism of the evolution
model. The message to OSU science students is that if you want a doctorate or
tenure, you had better do a thesis which supports the evolution model. This is
the persuasion of power, not the persuasion of reason and evidence.


Another example of the institutional abuse of power is the automatic banning of
papers published by design scientists in peer-reviewed journals. This deprives
the science community from hearing legitimate scientific criticism of the
evolution model. The pesky anomalies to the model are thereby swept under the
rug. The disingenuous advocates of evolution are able to tell the public,
"These upstart advocates of the Intelligent Design model are not real
scientists because their papers are not published in the peer-reviewed
journals! We are of science and they are of religion." Arbitrary power which
denies a voice to critics while gratuitously questioning their motives is not
science. It is hardball power politics.


Listening to informed criticism can only improve the evolution model.
Persecuting critics without listening to what they are saying can only hasten
the intellectual decay of the entrenched evolution establishment.
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