Safe Science NOT Practiced Here: Don't Miss the April 7 Deadline for Summer Seminar Applications

In academic science settings, most thinking about evolution is done with a view to personal safety. What you don't want to do is come up with results that could fall into the hands of the "creationists" and give encouragement to anyone who is open to recognizing evidence of design in nature. Even worse, if you're a professor, you don't want to be seen as communicating ideas like that to your students.

In the current environment on campuses, a rare outpost of unsafe science is our Summer Semi...