I was pleasantly surprised to see that John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American, noticed my posts about Paul Nelson's dishonest treatment of Keith Miller and linked to them.
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I have started to assemble a new blogroll for this new blog--the one on my last site was extremely outdated.
PZ Myers posted a response to Paul Nelson's post, in addition to mine. He goes into some aspects of the post that I did not go into, and does so quite well. I find nothing in it to disagree with.
The more that the producers of Expelled talk, the more they demonstrate their abject idiocy. Chris Heard transcribes part of producer Mark Mathis's discussion with Scientific American:
Over at Columbia Journalism Review, Curtis Brainard has an excellent round-up and analysis of what might be afoot at Scientific American as it merges editorial direction with Nature Publishing Group an
Gettin' noticed in the world!
John Rennie makes a really excellent point in the comments,
Nelson's gedanken experiment was rigged from the start as a false choice. His after the fact dancing on a philosophical pin and half-hearted apologia justifies nothing. The audience certainly did not join him in this in any case.
There's also the obligatory 'I can't believe they think ID and Creationism are the same thing' kind of comments. But that's expected.
That's awesome! Congrats! You're getting into all my favorite magazines. First Skeptic, now SciAm.
As Bruce Campbell would say, "Groovy!"