Tag: Jerry Coyne
Coyne and Polar Bears: Why You Should Never Rely on Incompetent Reviewers
A very common way to try to discredit an argument is to exaggerate it, ignore distinctions an author makes, and/or change carefully qualified claims into bizarre absolutes.
Science Review Offers False Accusations about Chloroquine Resistance
In one paragraph Lents et al. twice cited sources they thought contradicted Behe, and twice suggested he ignored or dismissed contrary evidence.
Happy Darwin Day! Here’s a Video Introduction to Signers of Scientific Dissent from Darwin List
What do you give a great scientist for his birthday when he’s already got everything?
Darwinists Devolve: Review by Swamidass, Lenski, and Lents Borders on Fraud
I found their review utterly convincing — although probably not in the way the authors might hope.
Flat Earth Myth: A Favorite with ID Critics
Professor Jerry Coyne, for one, says that HarperCollins, publisher of Michael Behe’s forthcoming book, “should be ashamed at [sic] itself for publishing the biology equivalent of flat-Earthism.”