J. Scott Turner

Academic Questions

September 18, 2024

American Lysenko

J. Scott Turner

NAS Director of Science Programs J. Scott Turner reviews Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s The Real Anthony Fauci, in which Kennedy dissects the costly incompetence of our scientific health establish......

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April 24, 2024

Introduction: Heterodox Thinking on Evolution

J. Scott Turner

Scott Turner, a member of the group of scientists called The Third Way of Evolution and coordinator for this feature, introduces readers to our look at the state of evolutionary science. Turner explai......

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April 24, 2024

Homeostasis and Purposeful Evolution

J. Scott Turner

Life may exist in a physical world, writes Scott Turner, but it is also marked by attributes not to be found in that world, such as intentionality, purposefulness, design, and intelligence. The Darwin......

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January 10, 2023

Decolonizing Science

J. Scott Turner

It is far from clear that Western science has suppressed or damaged “indigenous knowledge,” as a recent editorial in Nature suggests. But there is an important story to tell about science,......

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October 24, 2022

Unreasonable Science

J. Scott Turner

A review of "Science in an Age of Unreason," by John Staddon, 2022, Regnery Gateway Press, pp. 303, $29.99 hardbound.

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