PZ Myers is associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris where he works in the field of developmental biology.
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28 Facts About PZ Myers
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PZ Myers is a critic of intelligent design and the creationist movement and other pseudoscientific concepts.
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PZ Myers received the American Humanist Association's 2009 Humanist of the Year award and the International Humanist Award in 2011.
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PZ Myers has described his family as "probably what would be called the working poor nowadays", and noted that "when I was growing up I was called white trash more than a few times".
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PZ Myers graduated from Kent-Meridian High School in 1975 and subsequently attended DePauw University in Indiana on a full scholarship.
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PZ Myers then graduated from the University of Washington in 1979 with Bachelor of Science in zoology.
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PZ Myers is quoted as having "nothing but contempt" for intelligent design, arguing that it is "fundamentally dishonest".
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In 2009 PZ Myers was named the American Humanist Association's "Humanist of the Year".
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PZ Myers has taught and researched at the University of Oregon, the University of Utah and Temple University.
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PZ Myers is currently an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota's Morris campus.
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PZ Myers was involved in scientific debates on USENET surrounding the growing creationist movement.
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PZ Myers was a founding member of The Panda's Thumb blog.
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On Pharyngula, PZ Myers has repeatedly denounced the Discovery Institute, Answers in Genesis, and other creationist websites, as well as offering rebuttals to Intelligent Design, pointing out that its claims are pseudoscientific.
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PZ Myers dismissed the Discovery Institute's petition "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism", stating that the scientists listed did not have credentials relevant to biology, and that the number of them was minuscule compared to the scientific community as a whole.
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On his blog in 2007, PZ Myers reviewed Stuart Pivar's book Lifecode, which argues that self-organization at the embryonic and fetal stages determine the development and final structure of organisms.
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PZ Myers reviewed the book negatively, stating that the diagrams and ideas in the book arose from Pivar's imagination and had no basis in actual evidence.
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In 2012, PZ Myers announced that Chris Clarke, an environmentalist and blogger, would become Pharyngula's co-author.
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Controversy arose in July 2008 over a Pharyngula blog entry written by PZ Myers expressing amazement at news reports of death threats issued to University of Central Florida Student Senator Webster Cook.
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PZ Myers said later that he wanted to take it back to his seat to show a friend, but when stopped he pretended to put it in his mouth until back at his seat, then a church leader made forcible attempts to take the wafer from him.
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PZ Myers expressed outrage that Fox News Channel appeared to be inciting readers to cause further problems for the student, and ridiculed reports that armed guards would attend the next mass.
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Subsequently, PZ Myers explained to the Star Tribune that while his post was "satire and protest, " he had received death threats regarding the incident but was not taking them too seriously.
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PZ Myers replied that no one from the Catholic Church had contacted him.
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PZ Myers provided a photograph of these items in the garbage, and wrote that nothing must be held sacred, encouraging people to question everything.
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PZ Myers was waiting with his family and guests to attend a private screening after having reserved seats for himself and guests under his own name using the freely available online procedure set up by the film's promoters.
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PZ Myers has been invited to speak about science, rationalism, or atheism at conferences, symposia, and other events.
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PZ Myers has received several awards for his activism and blogging.
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