<p>A revealing article (courtesy of dmd77) about the politics of Evolutionary Biology:</p>
<p>As editor of the hitherto obscure Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Sternberg decided to publish a paper making the case for “intelligent design,” a controversial theory that holds that the machinery of life is so complex as to require the hand – subtle or not – of an intelligent creator. Within hours of publication, senior scientists at the Smithsonian Institution – which has helped fund and run the journal – lashed out at Sternberg as a shoddy scientist and a closet Bible thumper</p>
<p>An e-mail stated, falsely, that Sternberg had “training as an orthodox priest.” Another labeled him a “Young Earth Creationist,” meaning a person who believes God created the world in the past 10,000 years. They were saying I accepted money under the table, that I was a crypto-priest, that I was a sleeper cell operative for the creationists," said Steinberg, 42 , who is a Smithsonian research associate. “I was basically run out of there.”
“I loathe careerism and the herd mentality,” he said. "I really think that objective truth can be discovered and that popular opinion and consensus thinking does more to obscure than to reveal</p>
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