Suppose - vs. the edit and editors' disclaimer statement - *after the fact of publication *- that the article was just* removed* (erased!) from the journal!
What is not to say the removal of the article would be an example of CANCEL CULTURE? Conservatives would go nuts. Free speech (as advocated by the conservative community). @philipthrift On Monday, October 5, 2020 at 1:20:43 PM UTC-5 Brent wrote: > > > On 10/5/2020 1:18 AM, Philip Thrift wrote: > > If this article were in an "Intelligent Design" blog or journal, then this > wouldn't be significant. > > But this is in a "secular scientific" journal. So I am curious about the > backlash. > > e.g. > > "Dembski, Axe, and Behe come up, and the paper includes essentially a > review of just about all ID arguments we’ve heard. This is a secular > journal, but does make me wonder about who the editor was and who reviewed > it. It is hard to imagine this paper surviving an unbiased review." > > Now there's this: > > *Editor’s Disclaimer* > > *The Journal of Theoretical Biology and its co-Chief Editors do not > endorse in any way the ideology of nor reasoning behind the concept of > intelligent design. Since the publication of the paper it has now become > evident that the authors are connected to a creationist group (although > their addresses are given on the paper as departments in bona fide > universities). We were unaware of this fact while the paper was being > reviewed. Moreover, the keywords “intelligent design” were added by the > authors after the review process during the proofing stage and we were > unaware of this action by the authors. We have removed these from the > online version of this paper. We believe that intelligent design is not in > any way a suitable topic for the Journal of Theoretical Biology.* > > > That sounds better, I guess. > > > It sounds worse to me. It sounds like "Let's keep the real message and > intent of the paper covered up." I don't think the Editor's disclaimer > will show up when someone references the paper in the future. > > Brent > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/83c67299-6238-41e0-8e79-b284440fbca9n%40googlegroups.com.
