Ethics

Steve Fuller at Uncommon Descent

By Ed Brayton

We may have lost DaveScot at UD, but we're gaining the routinely muddleheaded Steve Fuller, who will be guest blogging at Dembski's Home for Wayward Sycophants. Fuller, you may recall, was the baffling expert witness offered up by the defense during the Dover trial who testified that while he thought ID was merely a fringe idea in science, it needed an "affirmative action" program of being taught to help it recruit new followers who might someday make it an actual theory.

That profoundly silly idea is one that I mocked with a good deal of enthusiasm in my speech about the Dover trial (see video here). He does not bother to set any limits on this position, but it logically applies to every fringe idea in science. It defends not only ID but Raelianism, flat earthism, hollow earthism, pyramidiocy, UFOlogy and every other crank pseudoscience. Instituting Fuller's idea would make science classes a sad joke.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 31, 2008 (boomark / email).