(July 3, 2012 at 10:11 am)Tiberius Wrote: Tenure isn't generally given based on a person's belief, or even one one particular area of their research. It is given on their research in general, and in Vitz's case, he has published a load of papers and books on varying subjects in Psychology. He certainly deserves tenure, despite what he might believe.
I'm not talking about his personal beliefs. He is teaching that atheists are the way they are because of fatherlessness. And he cites his own so-called research when he makes the claim. He has written at least one book on it, and goes on religious lecture tours promoting this nonsense. He is promoting it as a scientific fact. And the religious right is eating it up. He promotes atheism as a form of mental illness.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
