Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of 
Daniel Morgan has written a very thorough review of the entire Richard Sternberg situation and it's well worth reading. Sternberg, you may recall, was the editor of a journal who went outside the normal peer review process to insure that a very badly written paper by DI fellow Stephen Meyer would get published. Morgan debunks the whole Sternberg-as-martyr myth that has grown up around it. There is one bit of information, though, that I'm not certain is true. He writes:
Sternberg admitting on O'Reilly that Todd Wodd, of Bryan College, of the Baraminology Study Group, as in Young Earth Creationism...was one of the three people he sent out Meyer's Helpless Monster to in order to qualify it for peer review. Who else? Paul Nelson, also involved with Baraminology Conferences as far back as 1999. And the third reviewer? Why, none other than Jonathan Wells, of course.
Is this true? I wasn't aware that the identities of the reviewers had ever been revealed. If it's true, this is very useful information. Neither Nelson (a philosopher) nor Wells (a developmental biologist) is any more qualified to review a paper on Cambrian fossils than Stephen Meyer (also a philosopher) was to write it. No journal editor who was interested in genuine peer review would have sent that paper out to people with no expertise in the field, much less to people who are close friends and fellows at the center that the paper's author directs. This would seem to be very damaging to admit, and I've never heard that Sternberg has ever revealed who he sent the paper to for peer review. That makes me skeptical of the claim. Anyone know?
