@Patrick I have never see any one sign a non-disclosure agreement. We do ask them not to post picture of each other or mention names to protect identities. This must be some sort of anti-DI folk legend… I have already answered about what we do about people who don’t have a reference.
As to why the protection of student identities, are you not paying attention? Students who are openly ID will be refused positions, denied degrees, be unable to find a post-doc, and will mysteriously never get a call from 100s of job applications. A grad student who attends whose name is noticed by her PI might have something like this happen: “So where did you go this July?
Student mumbles.
" I saw your name mentioned in connection with the DI Summer Seminar. How was it?”
Student perks up. “Great!”
Professor;"Sorry to hear that. There will be a meeting with your committee to discuss this. Anyone who falls for that ID pseudoscience doesn’t belong in biochemistry (or genetics or molecular biology or…)
If ID and DI were doing real science and publishing the results in real journals, this wouldn’t be a problem. I work with atheists in Muslim countries where being an atheist is a crime with a death penalty.
I consider the “adversity” your ID students have to get through is minor compared to what an atheist in a Muslim country must endure.
ID is clearly religious. It is not science. DI operates in this country where religious freedom is guaranteed by the constitution. DI needs to come clean that they are a religious institution not a science institution. Then students can join the summer seminar as they would summer Bible study, and not mention it to their professors. I find the need to get a professor who is ID friendly to be corrosion. DI is trying to indoctrinate free thinking science students in DI’s religious beliefs. It is really sad.
This has been my complaint about the DI since well before Kitzmiller v. Dover. The DI doesn’t produce any science - new scientific ideas are presented and argued in mainstream professional science journals. The DI only produces popular press books and films with nothing but religious propaganda aimed at scientifically untrained laymen. We in science know it, the DI knows it too but they just don’t care. Their goal as always is to undermine “materialism” and get their religious views pushed back into public schools.
I have no problem with folks like Dr. Gauger holding their own personal religious views of life’s origins. I have a huge problem with an organization trying through BS propaganda to foist off those views as scientific.