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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator 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 and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
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Category: Intelligent Design
The Texas State Board of Education has long been a key battleground in the evolution/creationism controversy and the Discovery Institute and their allies have long advised the board on how to handle the issue. This article in the Houston Chronicle...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 55 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
The DI is engaged in their usual dishonest spin, this time over the issue of the origin of the ID movement. They're responding to this post by Nick Matzke at the Panda's Thumb where he points out that "intelligent design"...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 11:33 AM • 22 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
The ID crowd has been all abuzz lately over junk DNA after a very bad article in Wired appeared on the subject. Whenever there is an article in the scientific literature proposing a possible function for some specific type of...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
When the controversy over Richard Sternberg and the publication of the now-infamous Meyer paper broke, we heard quite often that Sternberg was not an ID advocate, merely an open-minded scientist (contrasted, of course, with the more-infamous - and mostly mythical...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:06 AM • 24 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
There's a very interesting post on the Newsweek blog by science journalist Sharon Begley about the existence of genes for synapses in the sea sponge, which has no need for such structures. Begley is discussing an article in PLoS One...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:25 AM • 140 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
I missed this post the other day, but it's worth a look. PZ Myers does a great job of dismantling Casey Luskin's continued distortions about Haeckel's embryo pictures in modern textbooks. The DI has been flat out lying about this...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
Michael Behe's new book The Edge of Evolution is now out and being heavily promoted by the Discovery Institute. I'm sure it will come as no surprise to my readers to hear that lots of us involved in defending evolution...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:13 AM • 14 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
It appears that we may be set to begin principal shooting on Dover: The Sequel, this time in Virginia. There has been some uproar in the Chesterfield County School District lately, where the school board has been in the process...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 12:59 PM • 48 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
You'd think that ol' Billy Dembski would learn to stop making these monetary offers and bets; they seem to backfire on him every time or turn out to be pointless. Remember when he offered cash for anyone who could send...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:19 AM • 20 Comments •
Category: Intelligent Design
Here's an idea that occurred to me today: by making such a huge deal out of his denial of tenure, the DI and their apologists are actually hurting Gonzalez' chances of landing another tenure track appointment at another university. The...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:35 AM • 20 Comments •
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