Science Week, a magazine I am not much familiar with, trashes me in a

foam-flecked editorial.

They also trash NR: “a frequent repository of right-wing slop and

spittle…” They earlier (their Jan. 19 editorial) dumped on Larry

Summers, suggesting he may be brain-damaged. I suppose I should be glad

they didn’t say that about me.

This comes to me after a day of defending biology against the

“intelligent design.” You think it’s easy standing up for

science nowadays?

I spent last Saturday evening over at Cold Spring Harbor lab with a

bunch of geneticists. One of them, a self-described conservative, said

something like this:

“Biology takes it from the Right and the Left. On the Right we get

these ‘Intelligent Design’ nuisances telling us that one of our most

basic investigative tools, evolutionary theory, is all hogwash. On the

Left we have these fanatics saying that human evolution couldn’t

possibly have produced any significant group differences, when of course

we all know it did. It’s a wonder we get any actual science done.”

Ah, well. Magna est veritas et praevalebit. Let’s hope so, anyway.