Science Articles and Book Reviews

• "Parasites and Morals," MBL Science, Summer 1985

• "The Truth About Calcium," MBL Science, Winter 1986
  

• "Bashful Eggs, Macho Sperm, and Tonypandy," in A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science, ed. Noretta Koertge, Oxford University Press, 1998

• Politicizing Science Education, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, April 2000
  

• "Exorcising Sociobiology," New Criterion, February 2001

•  Review of The Emergence of Life on Earth by Iris Fry, Human Nature Review, September 9, 2002

•  Review of The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, New York Sun, November 6, 2002

• "Making Sense of Development?" Review of Making Sense of Life by Evelyn Fox Keller,  Human Nature Review, May 23, 2004

• Less than Proficient: A Review of the Draft Science Framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, October 24, 2005, Thomas B. Fordham Foundation

• "Science Standards: We Can't Afford to Go Light," National Review Online, November 16, 2005

•  The State of State Science Standards 2005, by Paul R. Gross with Ursula Goodenough, Lawrence S. Lerner, Susan Haack, Martha Schwartz, Richard Schwartz, and Chester E. Finn, Jr.
  

• "Scientists Take on Intelligent Design," New York Sun, June 19, 2006

• Review of The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, by Michael J. Behe, in The New Criterion, October 2007 (posted with the kind permission of The New Criterion)