Northern Virginia Community College
At the same time Crocker taught at GMU, she was also an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College(NVCC). On November 2, 2005, she gave a lecture which she told a reporter was the lecture that had led to her losing her job at a previous university. She said "I lost my job at George Mason University for teaching the problems with evolution. Lots of scientists question evolution, but they would lose their jobs if they spoke out." In reality evolutionary biology is overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community, and there is no evidence of creationists being persecuted. Crocker had described the lecture beforehand as teaching "the strengths and weaknesses of evolution", and when asked afterwards if she would be discussing the evidence for evolution in another class, said that she would not as "There really is not a lot of evidence for evolution" and she was trying to balance other pro-evolution accounts. Myers remarked that this statement was grounds for her dismissal. National Center for Science Education research affiliate Alan Gishlick has described Crocker's arguments as part of a familiar litany of half-truths and errors.
Subsequently, she resigned from NVCC and began work for the Department of Defense in cancer research.
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