The Cunning Politics of Intelligent Design
The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
Okay, not really. But there is a great discussion going on over at Bloodless about the whole Intelligent Design thing Bush revived with his ill-advised endeavor to suggest that ID deserves equal time with evolution in the nation's science classrooms.
The most recent post, an excellent discussion by Binky, takes on a Krugman column, which in turn raises the deleterious effect of the he-said-she-said school of journalistic "objectivity" on debates pitting science against pseudo-science, which manages to so significantly confuse the polloi that sure-fire losing arguments become contenders.
(See also the thread that started the Bloodless discussion to begin with.)
Okay, not really. But there is a great discussion going on over at Bloodless about the whole Intelligent Design thing Bush revived with his ill-advised endeavor to suggest that ID deserves equal time with evolution in the nation's science classrooms.
The most recent post, an excellent discussion by Binky, takes on a Krugman column, which in turn raises the deleterious effect of the he-said-she-said school of journalistic "objectivity" on debates pitting science against pseudo-science, which manages to so significantly confuse the polloi that sure-fire losing arguments become contenders.
(See also the thread that started the Bloodless discussion to begin with.)
posted by Moon | 8/05/2005 12:42:00 PM
2 Comments:
I think we're blushing over at the 'coup.
More good stuff:
Wolcott and PZ Myers.
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