Articles by David Bump

Re: Darkness Before the Dawn – of Biology, 1 let's be honest: 50 years after an experiment that I was told in the 1970s very nearly "created life in a test tube," researchers are still spinning their wheels and having to "see new reasons for optimism." One study that generated a lot of excitement, when stripped of the technical jargon and wishful puffery, consisted of little more than whipping up a soapy froth with powdered clay and odd bits of RNA that didn't do anything. The claims to th

Evolution and Recommendations [Barry A. Palevitz] concludes that it is better not to burden society with graduates who, "despite their college education and our best efforts, will pass along personal biases instead of an accurate, objective reading of biology."1 To him, the theory of evolution is equal to "[the] germ theory of disease and the cell theory." Does it not occur to him that two people can look at the same "mountains of hard data" and apply valid but different patterns of logic

Just Politics Regarding Daniel S. Greenberg's Closing Bell column,1 his article certainly is about "politics" and not about science. It's obviously just a liberal journalist's biased attempt to enlist scientists in his cause of removing right-wing ideological purity from Washington and returning the left-wing ideological purists to power. David Bump 501 Coutant Flushing, Mich. 48433 1. D.S. Greenberg, "A no-show in politics," The Scientist, 17[3]:64, Feb. 10, 2003.