Jonathan McLatchie, I am outraged, sir!
Of course, it was obvious that the Discovery Institute would get someone to blog about the responses that they’ve had to Casey Luskin’s recent posts about Haeckel’s embryos, but I never knew it would be such a vicious and personal attack against yours truly.
You see, Jonathan McLatchie has just posted a “response” to Nick Matzke and Matt Young, but my post about Haeckel and his embryos, which also responded to Casey, was not mentioned! I’m shocked and outraged. This is blatant discrimination. How dare they expel me from the discussion!
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I’m not being entirely serious, come on, but it’s still telling that the Discovery Institute always chooses to go after the same targets (who, don’t get me wrong, make excellent points against what they have to say – The Panda’s Thumb is great) again and again. My guess is they do it so that they can build up an easy “us vs them” mentality, where you have the Discovery Institute and its allies on one side, and then the NCSE, The Panda’s Thumb and PZ Myers on the other – rebut those few “Darwinist” sources and you’ll seem to have neutralised all of your opposition in the blogosphere.
Well, that’s a highly dishonest approach, and I feel that they need to pull their socks up if they want to be seen as intellectually honest individuals. But, haha, who am I kidding? The Discovery Institute? Intellectually honest? The day will never come.
