{"id":707,"date":"2008-09-08T17:42:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=707"},"modified":"2008-10-31T15:52:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T19:52:45","slug":"creationist-claptrap-denounced-in-asbmb-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Creationist Claptrap denounced in ASBMB Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two articles in the August 2008 issue<\/a> of ASBMB Today<\/em> react to recent creationist initiatives. ASBMB’s president, Gregory A. Petsko of Brandeis University, pulls no punches in his column, beginning, “They’re at it again. Armed with another new idea from the Discovery Institute, that bastion of ignorance, right-wing political ideology, and pseudo-scientific claptrap, the creationist movement has mounted yet another assault on science. This time it comes in two flavors, propaganda and legislative.”<\/p>\n

Petsko quoting a “academic freedom”defender as saying that it enables teachers to “teach the controversy,” Petsko responds, “Let me say this as clearly as possible, so there can be no mistake about what I mean: there is no controversy.” “Just because a few misguided so-called scientists question the validity of the concept of evolution doesn’t mean there is a controversy. … The fact that some people believe nonsense does not give that nonsense scientific credibility,” Petsko continued adding,”Any ‘science’ teacher who teaches that the earth might have been created about 6,000 years ago and that all the material evidence that it’s billions of years old is controversial is simply incompetent.”<\/p>\n

ASBMB Today<\/em> is a monthly publication of the American Society for Microbiology and Molecular Biology<\/a>,http:\/\/www.asbmbtoday-digital.com\/asbmbtoday\/200808\/?pg=5<\/span><\/a>
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Two articles in the August 2008 issue of ASBMB Today react to recent creationist initiatives. ASBMB’s president, Gregory A. Petsko of Brandeis University, pulls no punches in his column, beginning, “They’re at it again. 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