O'Leary: "Behe is a working biochemist"
Me: "Funny definition of working you're using there, Denyse"
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On working biochemists
Category: Intelligent Design
Posted on: November 22, 2008 1:14 PM, by John Lynch
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What's with the anti-evolution Dilbert video on the O'Leary site?
Posted by: Rosie Redfield | November 22, 2008 5:01 PM
My favorite quotation from that particular bit of O'Leary word salad is this:
Yup. When genuine scientists tell you you're wrong about science that's strong evidence that you're right. Sure thing.Posted by: RBH | November 22, 2008 7:01 PM
Behe is working in that he's a tenured faculty member at Lehigh, so I won't begrudge him the title of working biochemist. As for praising his publication record, that's another matter entirely. Scanning PubMed, it's amazing that someone with tenure at a research university has had exactly two research papers in the last ten years: the admittedly-not-ID-but-touted-as-ID-anyway Behe and Snoke paper in Protein Science in 2004, and a legitimate comparative sequence analysis paper in DNA Sequence in 1998. His other "publications" during that period were four brief letters to the editor.
Other than Behe and Scott Minnich, is there anyone in the ID movement on the faculty of a research university or heading a lab group at a company that does basic biology research? Of the two, only Minnich is still publishing - useful research, nothing to do with ID.
Posted by: James F | November 22, 2008 8:02 PM
Um, okay. So if he's working as a garbage-man and also happens to be a biochemist, then he's a working biochemist?
Posted by: DLC | November 23, 2008 11:49 PM