where is the expose when its appropriate?

[acroyear]

Why is the media advertising for this group?  Why didn't this AP article take the opportunity to expose these anti-science cretins for the liars they are, and the abuse they do to science and the children they lie to?

Pharyngula and Science, Shrimp, and Grits ask similar questions.   I find the article painfully uncritical and one-sided, omitting far more than it presents and making the liars they talk about look like the good guys...

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[rsteachout.livejournal.com]

Why should Republicans have to keep correcting the same lies told about them? Even today, newspapers and pundits repeat the lie that Bush said Iraq was connected to 9/11 (read the text of the speech - he said Iraq was connected to terrorism). Does finding the truth, based on evidence, which you seem to believe in so strongly in *science*, mean less in politics?

Seriously, Joe, do you expect scientists to not have to deal with the same sorts of problems and hassles as everyone else? Just with groups I'm associated with I have to deal with responding to the same lies over and over ad nauseum about Republicans, unions, and Mormons -- and those are the ones I can think of without having to even strain a brain cell. How about the lies about Rennies (I don't know about you, but I've never been invited to the wild drug parties and sex orgies after hours)?

If there's any sort of opposition, there are going to be those "sound bites" and "evidence" that work and get traction and get used constantly, even if they are not true.

As for when they'll stop lying -- I wouldn't hold my breath. It might be a useful tool to ask for citations for the alleged statements, and then when they cannot be provided (or they only give hearsay anectdotes), take the battle to their home turf (morality, allegedly) exactly as you have here: Why are they lying, especially when they admit that lying is against their faith?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but I've never been invited to the wild drug parties and sex orgies after hours

oh. sorry. i'll try to sneak you into the next one, ok?

(actually, california did have some doozies before RPFS lost their site ;-) )