Re: National Academy Scientist Encourages Kansas to AdoptScience Standards Allowing for Critical Analys

George
Are you saying the Periodic Table is as dubious science as neo-Darwinism.

I always suspected that.

Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>
To: "Stephen Matheson" <smatheso@calvin.edu>; <asa@calvin.edu>; "Pattle Pun"
<Pattle.P.Pun@wheaton.edu>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: National Academy Scientist Encourages Kansas to AdoptScience
Standards Allowing for Critical Analys

> ----- 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 18:06:52 2005