Paul R. Gross
American biologist and author
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Paul R. Gross is a biologist and author, perhaps best known to the general public for Higher Superstition (1994), written with Norman Levitt.[1] Gross is the University Professor of Life Sciences (Emeritus) at the University of Virginia;[2] he previously served the university as Provost and vice-president.[3] He has written widely on the intellectual conflicts of the science wars, biology, evolution, and creationism—for example, his book Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design (2004), written with Barbara Forrest.[4]
Gross earned his A.B. in zoology and his Ph.D. in general physiology from the University of Pennsylvania.[3] He has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Brown University, and the University of Rochester.[3] From 1978 to 1988, he was Director and President of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts.[3]
Bibliography
- (with Norman Levitt) Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels With Science. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994). ISBN 0-8018-5707-4
- 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. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 0-19-515742-7
- "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.