Re: [asa] Review of "Flock of Dodos" film screening

Clarke:
Thank you for your very informative review. I think that I can clarify
one matter you raised. You wrote:

>
> 6. Olson was unable to get an interview on film with anyone from the
> Discovery Institute. Nevertheless, Olson portrays the Discovery
> Institute
> as a well-funded organization supported by dozens and dozens of right-
> wing
> religiously oriented gropus, and who are able to hire the same public
> relations firm who promoted the Swift boat veterans scandal. On the
> other
> side, the evolutionary establishment is not well funded and does a
> horrible job at PR...... I confess that these observations were
> bewildering. First, it shows that politics seems to continually get
> wrapped up in these discussions and science often suffers -- for both
> sides -- the right and the left. Secondly, I am not sure how
> believable
> it is that the Discovery Institute is just floating in cash while the
> evolutionary establishment is pleading poverty. I have often heard
> from
> the Creation Science community that they are poor while the
> evolutionary
> establishment gets all of the NSF grants they want. So I'm not sure
> what
> to think about this one (but what is probably really sad is that I am
> afraid that my comment of about "politics" here might generate more
> discussion on this mailing list than anything else -- if this is the
> case,
> then this would sadly probably only prove my point).
>
>
>
My comment is that one can reconcile what you have heard as follows.
The Creation Science community is short of cash with which to conduct
science (e.g. their RATE experiments) but it has lots of cash for PR
activities. The Discovery Institute has lots of cash for PR work. The
evolutionists are short of cash for conducting PR work.
Don

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Received on Tue Oct 31 03:30:13 2006