After a neat and tidy shredding of the Intelligent Designers, the Washington Post takes a thoughtful look forward, and mentions a rarely commented on (but ultimately quite important) factor that burbles beneath the surface of each of these controversies – the brain drain that is already ongoing in the American scientific community.

[T]he breadth and [...]

Story courtesy Tearsa Smith, WATE-TV News 6 News Anchor/Reporter, we learn that Intelligent Design has burrowed into another school board, this time in Blount County, Tennessee. I’m just going to paste the entire story here, in case the details magically morph between now and later:

BLOUNT COUNTY (WATE) — If you have high schoolers in [...]

From Newshounds: Michael Grant, Professor of Biology at the University of Colorado squared off with Bill O’Reilly to debate the merits of Intelligent Design. A ‘what is science’ debate ensued, as did much hilarity:

O’REILLY: OK. But science is incomplete in this area of creationism, is it not? GRANT: Science is always incomplete in all [...]

I think Kevin Drum and Chris Mooney both make good points as per Michelle Goldberg’s excellent Salon article on the ID controversy in Dover. That is; once America gets a good look at the illiterate nutjobs that comprise much of ID’s visible ‘fighting force’, they’ll recoil in horror (Mooney); and, the mainstream media’s bias toward [...]