Thursday, March 19, 2009

The Bad Astronomer on Gary Goodyear, creationist?

Is Canada’s Science Minister a creationist? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

There are a number of different newspaper articles and blog posts about this scandal. Indeed, I'll post a few below. I single out Phil Plait's post above as it gets to some of the interesting issues of science in the media that I think other pieces miss or do not stress enough. That point is that there are places about the way that values influence science that are definitely appropriate in certain contexts, even when those values are religious values.

Other posts:
Canadian Cynic on the follow-up to the scandal

Anne McIlroy, Globe and Mail Story, March 17th, 2009
Adam Radwanski on how this is baseless criticism from the Liberals



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