[xcamel]

hoax-and-a-half.
genuinely stupid people.

[Volunteer]

So Gary Trudeau will be correcting his "Doonesbury" cartoon that was based upon this hoax, right?????

Oh yeah, that's right. Leftists don't have to be accurate.

[Old Professer]

Anybody got any industrial strength egg remover they can loan this schmuck??

[NaughtiusMaximus]

The Flagstaff city council was duped last week by dozens of faxes from prominent citizens opposing a zoning waiver for a proposed new hotel. The signatures on the faxes were later found to be false. The proposal was voted down by the council before the hoax was uncovered.

Believe me, there are environmentalist fanatics on the loose around here who see nothing at all wrong with "disinformation" campaigns.

(Nasty little Birkenstock sporting town. It used to be nice too before the liberal waves of immigrants took it over.)

[Lancey Howard]

'Skeptic Magazine' took the word of some lying scumbag from PEER? This goes way beyond irony.

[cripplecreek]

Oh man I'm going to have fun with some liberals who were going off the rails with their "right wing extremist" rants over this story.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

PEER is an anti-Bush, anti-religion liberal activist watchdog group in search of demons to exorcise and dragons to slay. On one level, that’s how the system works in a free society, and there are plenty of pro-Bush, pro-religion conservative activist watchdog groups who do the same thing on the other side.

Who Mr. Shermer on the other side are making utterly false accusations? What are those accusations?

[omnivore]

Why on Earth (or Gaia - haha) would a group that claims to be "skeptical" give any credence to an outfit that claims to be "a Washington D.C.-based environmental watchdog group"? That's a self-evident contradiction in terms. Washington DC is an urban hellhole. Anybody who could stand to live within commuting distance of the District cannot possibly have any care about or affinity with the environment. That should have set off the fraud alarms right away. The fact that it did not, gives one pause when evaluating how "skeptical" these self-proclaimed "skeptics" really are.

[Lorianne]

GRC sells the books causing the controversy, not the NPS. GRC is a private, non-profit group. They also sell American Indian books with creation myths. The book in question is in the “inspirational” section of the Park bookstore along with Hualapai Indian creationists stories.

This press release by PEER was really about not wanting a Christian creationist book being sold in a NPS bookstore. They appear to have "embellished" the truth about Bush et al putting a gag order on Park Rangers discussing the geological age of the Grand Canyon.

If you don't agree with creationist theory then ignore and don't buy the book. Likewise, if you don't believe in Hualapai Indian creationists theories, don't buy the book.

Don't restrict freedom of speech just becouse you don't agree with the opinion being expressed.