Paul R. Gross is a

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and

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, perhaps best known to the general public for ''

Higher Superstition ''Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science'' is a 1994 book about the philosophy of science by the biologist Paul R. Gross and the mathematician Norman Levitt. Summary Levitt states he is a leftist trying to save th ...

'' (1994), written with

Norman Levitt Norman Jay Levitt (August 27, 1943 – October 24, 2009) was an American mathematician at Rutgers University. Education Levitt was born in The Bronx and received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1963. He received a PhD from Princeton Un ...

. Gross is the University Professor of Life Sciences (Emeritus) at the

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; he previously served the university as Provost and vice-president. He has written widely on

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and

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, and the intellectual conflicts of the

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—for example, his book '' Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design'' (2004), written with

Barbara Forrest Barbara Carroll Forrest is a professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. She is a critic of intelligent design and the Discovery Institute. Biography Forrest is a graduate of Hammond High School. She re ...

. Gross earned his

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and his Ph.D. in general

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from

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. He has taught at the

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, and the

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. From 1978 to 1988 he was Director and President of the

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Bibliography

* (with

) '' Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science''. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). * ''Politicizing Science Education,'' Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, April 2000. * "Berlinski Vanquishes Pseudoscience—Again," ''Commentary,'' December 16, 2002. * "Intelligent Design and That Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy," ''Science Insights,'' September 2003. * ''

Creationism's Trojan Horse ''Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design'' is a 2004 book by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross on the origins of intelligent design, specifically the Discovery Institute's Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture and ...

''.

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, 2004. * "Neo-creationist Tactics Show troubling Evolution," ''Science & Theology News,'' October 14, 2005. * "Science Standards: We Can't afford to Go Light," ''National Review Online,'' November 16, 2005. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gross, Paul R. Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century American biologists Critics of creationism University of Pennsylvania alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty New York University faculty Brown University faculty University of Rochester faculty University of Virginia faculty Critics of postmodernism