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Today it would be virtually impossible for any
scientific paper that has anti-Darwinian implications to be published in Nature
or in any serious peer-reviewed scientific journal, regardless of the scientific
merits of its findings.
To be an exception to this rule an anti-Darwinian
paper would have to be of paradigm shattering importance, like Cairns and Hall's
experiment on directed mutation. Even then, publication of the results is likely
to be hedged around with qualifications, argumenta ad hominem
directed at the authors and technical quibbles that would never be directed at
any paper supporting Darwinism.
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A prime example of this academic censorship is
the case of British biologist Warwick Collins. In 1976 Collins was studying
biology at Sussex University under the eminent Darwinist Professor John Maynard
Smith. Collins wrote a paper on sexual selection as an anomaly in Darwinian
theory. Dr. John Thoday, professor of genetics at Cambridge, invited Collins to
present an expanded version of his paper to an international conference of
population geneticists -- an honour for the young undergraduate.
Collins says, 'In the paper I tried to extend
further my doubts about the assumptions in Darwinian evolutionary theory. Out of
courtesy I circulated the expanded paper to my distinguished tutor prior to the
conference. Before I was due to take the stand, Professor Maynard Smith stood up
in front of the conference and roundly denounced the premises of my paper.'
After the conference Maynard Smith told Collins
that 'he would use his considerable influence to block publication of any
further papers of mine which questioned the fundamental premises of Darwinian
theory.'
Collins has, indeed, found it impossible to have
any further papers published up to as recently as 1994, when a paper he
submitted to Nature was rejected without reason. Not surprisingly,
Collins has left the field of biology.
Darwinists have thus begun not merely to react to
criticism by members of their own profession but have gone on the attack. As in
the case above, some of their methods of attack leave a very unpleasant taste in
the mouth of anyone educated in the western liberal-intellectual tradition.
