Jerry Coyne and Luana Maroja - The Ideological Subversion of Biology

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In “The Ideological Subversion of Biology,” the cover feature of the July/August 2023 issue of Skeptical Inquirer, Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja deliver a powerful and provocative warning about the dangers of trying to make scientific reality conform to the political winds. It’s an absolute must-read for anyone who agrees that science must be objective and empirical—not ideological.
Join us on Thursday, July 6, at 7:00 p.m. ET for a special Skeptical Inquirer Presents livestream with Jerry A. Coyne and Luana S. Maroja, hosted by Robyn E. Blumner, CEO and president of the Center for Inquiry**.** They’ll discuss how the field of evolutionary and organismal biology has been “impeded or misrepresented by ideology,” how the erosion of free inquiry in science due to progressive ideology is damaging both intellectually and materially, and, most importantly, what can be done about it. If things don’t change, they warn, “in a few decades science will be very different from what it is now. Indeed, it’s doubtful that we’d recognize it as science at all.”

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Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He graduated from the College of William and Mary and got his PhD at Harvard University. Besides 125 scientific papers, Coyne cowrote a scholarly book about his research area (Speciation) and two trade books, Why Evolution Is True and Faith versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible. Coyne is the recipient of a Guggenheim Award and the Richard Dawkins Award, was president of the Society for the Study of Evolution, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Luana S. Maroja is an evolutionary biologist and professor at Williams College. She got her undergraduate and master’s degrees from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and her PhD from Cornell University. She is interested in population ecology, phylogeny, speciation, population genetics. and phylogeography and has done extensive field work in Brazil, Panama, and the United States. Maroja works on a variety of organisms, including small mammals, crickets, butterflies, and plants, and has published more than thirty-five scientific papers.