Jerry Coyne shows Mooney and Kirshenbaum the door. It's a nice, succinct dismissal.
He makes the empirical argument that their strategy is nothing new and has been in operation for many years, and hasn't worked — but I think just the fact that the scientists they most want to get to change their ways are finding their work both shallow and repugnant is a testimony to their failure as communicators, too. I guess they'll just have to write us off.
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Hey, this isn't a half-bad critique of creationist arguments — short, written at a simple level, and with a list of references at the end.
Cobb County, Georgia is infamous for its efforts a few years ago to slap a warning sticker on biology textbooks, which might have given the impression that it's full of southern yahoos.
Levitt and Dubner still haven't engaged with their critics' arguments and continue to respond with nothing more than name calling.
Would you believe that Tom Coburn (Repugnant, Oklahoma) has introduced a bill to end funding for political science research?