[general_re]

LOL - don't stop there. It's worth the read, I promise ;)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Gross is much concerned with the interplay of science and politics--he is the co-author of the 1994 book, Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science--and is puzzled by the attacks on evolutionary biology by people whose political views he largely shares. Regarding Commentary's anti-Darwin article, he says he is mystified that the magazine "would publish the damned thing without at least passing it by a few scientists first."

Good points. The neo-Creationists and their twins, the Post-Modern-Deconstructionists continue to comment on science without checking with a few scientists first. Sokal's "Social Text" caper is a good example.

[MattAMiller]

Thanks for recomending a thorough reading. I'd written it off as a creationist harangue. I was very glad to see the author explained what Behe actually says in his book. And the Strauss stuff was very interesting.