----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Matheson" <smatheso@calvin.edu>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>; "Pattle Pun" <Pattle.P.Pun@wheaton.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: National Academy Scientist Encourages Kansas to AdoptScience
Standards Allowing for Critical Analys
> Sneaky, sneaky. The Discovery Institute identifies Skell as a "professor
> emeritus of biochemistry." Nope; he identifies his research interests as
> "organic chemistry mechanisms, organometallic chemistry, and heterogeneous
> catalysis," and his title at Penn State is "Holder Emeritus of the Evan
> Pugh
> Professor of Chemistry." He may well know what an Alu repeat is, but he's
> not
> a biochemist.
>
> Naturally this won't matter to the Discovery Institute, which would surely
> never be caught dead making a bogus appeal to authority.
& this also makes one wonder why Skell didn't call for a critical study of
the periodic table or something else in his area of professional expertise.
Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Thu May 12 17:41:03 2005
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