Preach it, Brother!

[elfs]

PZ Meyers is one of those good guys fighting the good fight. In a recent post, he pans a book review in Science of the pro-"intelligent design" book, Darwinism, Design, and Public Education, edited by Campbell and Meyer. His objection is to this sentence: "The volume's legal, pedagogical, and social arguments--- in contrast to much of its scientific discussion-- are nuanced and informed."

Meyers responds:

I'm afraid that isn't good enough. This is a book purportedly about the teaching of science, and the science it advocates is crap. That crucial fact ought to be front and center in bold print at the heart of the review, not buried in a weak "tut, tut" somewhere in the midst of broad accolades for the author's mastery of the use of commas and paragraphs. That kind of tepid academic dithering is what's killing us in the marketplace of public opinion.

Get it out. Campbell and Meyer are wrong. They are using rhetoric and well-spoken lies to peddle dishonest crap to school children. When these frauds try to teach my kids that the sky is green, up is down, and by the way, the earth is only 6000 years old, I don't want one of the leading science journals to soft-peddle the stupidity of their cause to extol the elegance of their poesy. I want goddamned critical knives. I want furious rhetoric that puts these fraudulent clowns down. I want, just once, for a scientist to grit his teeth, make his muscles bulge, rip off his lab coat, and roar, "DARWIN SMASH!!!"

Amen.