{"id":860,"date":"2009-07-27T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T15:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/dembski-gets-things-wrong-as-usual\/"},"modified":"2009-07-27T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-27T15:43:31","slug":"dembski-gets-things-wrong-as-usual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/dembski-gets-things-wrong-as-usual\/","title":{"rendered":"Dembski gets things wrong&#8230; as usual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to link and run, but I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2009\/07\/its-all-about-s.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this post by Ian Musgrave at the Panda&#8217;s Thumb<\/a> blog and found it eminently worthwhile to pass along. It&#8217;s about what he calls &#8220;Science Envy&#8221; by the pretend scientists at the Discovery Institute, referring to an article by William Dembski who is noteworthy for spreading misinformation (and indeed, <strong>dis<\/strong>information) about science-related issues&#8230; which is pretty much the modus operandi for the Discovery Institute in general.<\/p>\n<p>Dembski seems to think that scientists are all-powerful and demand that society does what they say in order to avoid catastrophes&#8230; and that these scientists need a lesson in humility blah, blah, blah. Along the way, Dembski brings up all kinds of nonsense that Ian refutes with panache.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate to link and run, but I just read this post by Ian Musgrave at the Panda&#8217;s Thumb blog and found it eminently worthwhile to pass along. It&#8217;s about what he calls &#8220;Science Envy&#8221; by the pretend scientists at the Discovery Institute, referring to an article by William Dembski who is noteworthy for spreading &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/27\/dembski-gets-things-wrong-as-usual\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dembski gets things wrong&#8230; as usual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[277,378,721,857],"class_list":["post-860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","tag-discovery-institute","tag-global-warming","tag-science","tag-william-dembski","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rationalitynow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}