Here is a doc. that needs to find wide distribution:

http://www.indoctrinate-u.com/intro/


the Education industry needs a serious reformation, they also need to lean back towards Classical Education and actually teach people how to think instead of what to think.

Orwell, Townshend...all the great minds have warned us about this.

http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=6473

http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=6515

laugh or cry?

From what I have read about Gonzalez, most of his published papers were published before he was at Iowa State, and as all in academia know, Tenure is not something just given out to anyone. Lots of people get denied tenure everyday for a multitude of reasons. Seems like Gonzalez's reason was he didn't live up to what was expected of him.

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Bourgeois_Rage Wrote:From what I have read about Gonzalez, most of his published papers were published before he was at Iowa State, and as all in academia know, Tenure is not something just given out to anyone. Lots of people get denied tenure everyday for a multitude of reasons. Seems like Gonzalez's reason was he didn't live up to what was expected of him.

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Well thanks for the follow up info.

I also noticed that some sites are urging people to mail the president to express their disdain for the tenure denial.

I'm not sure that's a good idea. I don't think the president is going to reverse the ruling, and I think it can only hurt Gonzalez's chances at landing another job where tenure is a possibility.

Thoughts on that aspect?

DrTorch Wrote:http://www.breakpoint.org/listingarticle.asp?ID=6515

laugh or cry?

Quote:And on his own time, Gonzalez produced A Privileged Planet, a groundbreaking book and documentary film on intelligent design, in which he explains that the earth is uniquely situated to sustain complex life.

I've seen this(the film), pretty good stuff. There is another one, can't think of name, that has all these teachers that aren't allowed to fully teach Darwinism(i.e. show the gapping holes and somethings they use to beleive that were either fabricated or they were wrong on. been awhile since I saw it but I remember a teacher in Seattle that was blackballed over it.

Bourgeois_Rage Wrote:I also noticed that some sites are urging people to mail the president to express their disdain for the tenure denial.

I'm not sure that's a good idea. I don't think the president is going to reverse the ruling, and I think it can only hurt Gonzalez's chances at landing another job where tenure is a possibility.

Thoughts on that aspect?

I doubt it will affect his job prospects at all. Assuming the scienceblog write up is true, then you have a talented scientist who isn't ready to lead research. There are TONS of smaller schools who would love to have someone w/ this calibre on their faculty, and his book would be an asset, not a demerit.

No, the letters to the president hurt people's credibility particularly the ID community.

my brother whose in college found this, elementary school propaganda:

http://www.massresistance.org/media/vide...shing.html

I guess all the kids being forced to watch Al Gore isn't all that suprising.

on related not, check out what the Duke Conservative Union did to the 88 Duke Professors, Link

a true Social Disaster