Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Snake Oil For The Snake Oil Salesmen

Nisbet and Mooney do it again, with an op-ed in the Washington Post ... and I'm afraid they've alienated me yet further. I am convinced now that theirs is not an approach that I could find useful, even if I could puzzle out some useable strategy from it. In the very first sentence, they claim that Richard Dawkins gives "creationist adversaries a boost" -- it's the tired old argument that we must pander to religious belief.

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