Update: The American Academy paper is now live. Download it here.
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piece is receiving a truly unexpected blog critique. It is basically being criticized for being relatively brief, and not getting into that much detail. In other words, it is being criticized for being what it is by definition--a short newspaper commentary. Thus Orac, PZ Myers, and Evil Monkey all fault the piece for not providing more on solutions. The irony is that the byline of the Post piece mentions that I've done a more in depth paper on all this for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. And that 15 page paper, in turn, is based on a reading of hundreds of pages of transcripts for four expert workshops put together by the Academy. There is more talk of solutions in the transcripts than the paper, and more in the paper than in the Post piece...and so on. As you'd expect. In any event, the paper releases today, whereupon it will be available at this link. Thus far, the link isn't working, but it should pretty soon. So for those who want more detail, please download the paper. Or, if you prefer, criticize the Post piece and then download the paper! [Note: T
here are other points to respond to in these critiques, especially from Orac. I'm busy preparing my talk about the paper for an event this afternoon at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, but hope to address those tomorrow.]
