Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This isn't the language of a journal of opinion; it's the language of a tent revival. For the Peninsula editors, Harvard isn't a place for the pursuit of truth, but the maintenance of Truth--the defense of dogma against dissenters. Forget thinking, exploration and questioning. What this "moral wasteland" needs is a healthy dose of belief...
Right-wingers may be correct in claiming "a very significant victory." In a pale but disturbing analogue of the Lysenko affair, scientific judgments have been alloyed, if only slightly, with politico-religious dogma, creating / an unwelcome precedent for a nation that needs to stay even -- in some cases to catch up -- with its competitors. The camel's nose is now in the tent...
California's decision to teach evolution as both fact and theory is a slippery equivocation that alloys science with dogma. But in a sense, we are all creationists...