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Michael Bérubé is confused about my appeal to the contexts of discovery and justification in the Dover trial. (I was the one who happened to raise the distinction.) There are two points about the dist...
posted by Steve Fuller
December 20, 2008 @ 5:40 AM
Steve Fuller is indeed a confusing fellow. In my essay, I remarked that Fuller testified in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District on behalf of the religious fundamentalists who had sought to intro...
posted by Michael Bérubé
December 22, 2008 @ 4:34 PM
Michael Bérubé says something unwittingly accurate and inaccurate in his response. Alchemy and phrenology are indeed part of the backstory of modern science, and had they enough practitioners or belie...
posted by Steve Fuller
December 23, 2008 @ 4:03 AM
By “shill” I meant only that Fuller does not practice the “science” of Intelligent Design himself; he merely works as an enthusiastic bystander, urging others to do so. My remark was meant not to sugg...
posted by Michael Bérubé
December 23, 2008 @ 11:07 AM
Bérubé asks whether I would put astrology in the science curriculum. Why not, especially given the continuing enthusiasm for it? I can imagine a substantial pro- and con- discussion of astrology at t...
posted by Steve Fuller
December 23, 2008 @ 5:39 PM
Professor Berube's review of my book is illuminating and in general very fair. My only complaint is with his attribution to me, in the last six paragraphs of his review, of views about the philosophi...
posted by Alan Sokal
March 20, 2009 @ 10:02 AM