Ed Brayton is a freelance writer and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media.(static)
Ed Brayton also blogs at Positive Liberty and The Panda's Thumb
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December 31, 2006
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This is an email I sent a few moments ago to Richard Dawkins. Much of the sentiment in it is a result this post by my friend Nick Matzke at the Panda's Thumb and the more detailed and well considered...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:47 AM • 141 Comments
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Is anyone else having a lot of fun watching Mitt Romney prove to the religious right that he really does hate gays as much as them? A few weeks ago it came out that he actually ran a campaign where...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:15 AM • 8 Comments
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MikeGene's response to me on his typology of ID critics had two parts. I thought the part about Dawkins and coercion deserved its own post and I didn't want to dilute my complete rejection of the petition that Dawkins has...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:45 AM • 23 Comments
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The Christian Science Monitor reports that the US military is taking great steps to recruit more Muslims to join their ranks. * West Point and the other service academies have opened Muslim prayer rooms, as have military installations. • Imams...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments
December 30, 2006
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For those who are interested, Richard Dawkins has posted a retraction of his support for the petition I criticized so strongly yesterday. You can find his retraction in the comments on that post. Unfortunately, you can also find several examples...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 3:03 PM • 165 Comments
Category: Creationism
Now this is just funny. Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort have put out an "Intelligent Design vs Evolution" board game. I'm sure it's chock full of the accurate information and plausible arguments that the C&C Bullshit Factory has become known...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:40 PM • 5 Comments
Category: Dover Lawsuit
While preparing for a presentation on the Dover trial, as well as prepping for the book project, I've been rereading some of the testimony transcripts from the Dover trial. Rereading the cross examination of Dover school board member Bill Buckingham...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:48 AM • 10 Comments
Category: Gay Rights
With New Jersey now allowing civil unions, the state's attorney general is warning public officials that if they choose to perform marriage ceremonies, they must also perform civil unions for gay couples. In a legal opinion by N.J. Attorney General...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:22 AM • 7 Comments
December 29, 2006
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Update: at the insistence of several readers, please be advised that Dawkins has now repudiated his signature on that petition and asked that it be taken off. You can find that retraction in the comments below. Update #2: Please read...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 2:04 PM • 297 Comments
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STACLU's blog has been down almost a week and I'm starting to have stupidity withdrawals. I need a hit, man. Worse yet, Gribbit says he may have to stop blogging completely. I may have to sponsor him or something so...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:24 PM • 7 Comments
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Whoever came up with the idea of Youtube deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor. And if you've never heard of the Democracy Player, you need to get that too. It allows you to search for youtube and Google videos and...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:45 AM • 9 Comments
Category: Creationism
I clicked on this link from the front page of the Worldnutdaily expecting some profoundly ridiculous claims; I was not disappointed. I also figured maybe they were going to just reprint some press release from the Discovery Institute, but instead...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:38 AM • 8 Comments
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First class wingnut Peter LaBarbera from the pompously named Americans for Truth (and that makes the rest of us what?) has a ridiculous article slamming President Bush for not condemning Mary Cheney because of her pregnancy. It includes some absolutely...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:27 AM • 17 Comments
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With all the controversy over Rob Pennock's speech at UCSD a few weeks ago, I thought you might like to see the actual speech. UCSD has made it available in real video format on their webpage....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:18 AM • 0 Comments
Category: Intelligent Design
Just noticed this post from MikeGene on Telic Thoughts, where he offers a typology of ID critics. I actually think it's a reasonably accurate typology, though I think his choice of words in saying that the Richard Dawkins type of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:13 AM • 52 Comments
December 28, 2006
Category: Intelligent Design
In doing some research on a post about one of Behe's papers, I came across this little gem. Back in 2004, around the time he and David Snoke published their paper in Protein Science, William Dembski announced at DDDV that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 10:28 AM • 14 Comments
