Links of Interest
The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science merged with the Center for Inquiry, under Robyn Blumner as CEO. Together we promote Secular Humanism and Scientific Skepticism. Among our projects (see separate links) are the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science, Secular Rescue, Science Saves, and two journals, Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry
The mission of the Richard Dawkins Foundation is to promote scientific literacy and a secular worldview. Some might see this as two distinct missions: 1) Teaching the value of science, and 2) Advancing secularism. Yes, those are my foundation’s goals. You will not be surprised to learn that my personal priority is science as one of the highest and most aesthetically rewarding achievements of the human spirit. But there is an intimate connection between science and the other preoccupation of my foundation, the advancement of secularism. I see those goals as interrelated and mutually reinforcing.
Effecively debunks an extreme critic called "The Dialectical Biologist" and invites readers to give their own assessment of The Selfish Gene. 52 do so and it's very interesting to read their comments.
I’m not sure about the nature of this website, The Freethinker, but it appears to be a rationalist and humanistic venue. But I haven’t investigated it in any detail as I really don’t care about its politics given that the article at hand is an interview with Richard Dawkins. Nor is the interviewer named; it’s just “Freethinker.”
These papers include some that grew out of my DPhil Thesis, my work with Marian Stamp Dawkins on decision-making, the work with Jane Brockmann and Alan Grafen on ESS theory in digger wasps, my 1976 paper on Hierarchical Organisation, and various theoretical papers on evolution.
Alan Canon brilliantly re-wrote my original Mac-specific suite of "Watchmaker " programs as a web version which will run on any computer. Alan's work is unfinished (e.g. Snails) but in general it works so well that I wanted to post the link here.
One of the two journals published by the Center for Inquiry. Skeptically investigates all claims of the paranormal, including homeopathy, psychokinesis, telepathy, poltergeists, spiritualism, UFOs etc.