How not to rely on press releases for one's information...
Updates:
Earlier, Dembski retracted the threat of a lawsuit against MIT Press
for copyright violation when it was demonstrated that the Press and
Pennock had followed the appropriate procedures for securing
permissions.
In a recent release, Dembski backs off from claims that Robert Pennock
didn't contact him prior to publication. Bill now says that he
misunderstood Robert's email.
see:
http://www.arn.org/docs2/news/howstillnottodebatedesign010902.htm
..wherein Bill airs additional grievances. One comment of Bill's
that I found personally unconvincing is:
"According to Pigliucci and Pennock, intelligent design proponents are
not scholars to be engaged on the intellectual merits of their case.
Rather, they are charlatans to be discredited, silenced, and stopped."
I can't speak for Pigliucci (because I haven't read much of his work),
but I do know that this is a completely erroneous characterization of
Robert Pennock.
Also:
METANEXUS has now removed Dembski's "Press release". I think that
site's organizers are now less likely to forward inflammatory press
releases without first confirming the content for validity or
accuracy.
Regards, Tim Ikeda
(email address in transition)
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