Over at DailyKOS, Wes Elsberry (of NCSE) gets interviewed. Wes graciously gives props to Ed Brayton, Troy Britain, Reed Cartwright, Mike Dunford, Pim van Meurs, and myself (among many many others) for our help on the Dover case, but frankly it all pales into significance compared to the work Wes, Nick Matzke and the NCSE put into the case. They are the heroes of all of this.
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