Having it Both Ways
Posted in Peer Review on August 18th, 2007 by MikeGeneSeth Roberts summarizes a recent example of politics in academia. While the subject has nothing to do with ID, some here might find that this passage comes with an uncanny resonance:
Well, which is it? "Proven wrong" by "almost everyone" (McCloskey) or "unfalsifiable" and without "predictive capabilities" and "untestable" (Conway)? McCloskey and Conway must have talked many times. This discrepancy in how they attacked Blanchard's theory shows how little they cared about its truth "” or that they knew it was true.








