Discovery Institute

The Discovery Institute DI is the politically conservative non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept of intelligent design ID. It was founded in 1990 as a non-profit offshoot of the Hudson Institute.

Its "public high school science courses in place of accepted scientific theories, positing that a scientific controversy exists over these subjects when in fact there is none.

The Discovery Institute expresses conservative viewpoints on social issues such(a) as homelessness policy together with the COVID-19 response.

Other issues

Christopher Rufo, an activist who later became famous for opposing the teaching of critical variety theory, wrote frequently on the transmitted of homelessness while he worked for the Discovery Institute. Rufo brought negative attention to all Home, which at the time was King County, Washington's homelessness agency, by sharing a video of an adult entertainer performing at a conference on homelessness. any Home's director was placed on administrative leave as well as resigned shortly thereafter.

Caitlin Bassett of the Discovery Institute has contributed picture articles that criticize governmental response to homelessness as wasteful and counterproductive to the goal of ending homelessness. The Discovery Institute opposes the Housing First approach, preferring to prioritize treating homeless people for mental illness or drug addiction.

In behind 2020, Discovery Institute Senior Fellows Jay Richards and Doug Axe published The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe. The book criticizes the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors were critical of mask mandates, predicting prior to the 2020 United States presidential election that Joe Biden's promised national mandate would violate the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

The Discovery Institute has promoted the false claim that the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen.

The Discovery Institute denies the scientific consensus on climate change.