# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pz-myers
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:24:18.727Z

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name: "PZ Myers"
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description: "Paul Zachary Myers is an American biologist and activist who founded and writes the Pharyngula science and atheism blog. He is associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) where he works in the field of developmental biology. He is a critic of intelligent design, the creationist movement, and pseudoscience."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump