Charting the Idealism of Intelligent Design: A Small-Scale Map of Local Advocacy

Not a scientist: how politicians mistake, misrepresent, and utterly mangle science

“…First, in his counterattacks on politically charged pseudoscience, Levitan makes no reference to Creationism, a pseudoscience whose proponents often employ techniques very similar to those listed in this book. According to a 2010 Gallup poll, approximately thirty-eight percent of Americans believed that humans were created in their present form within the last ten thousand years, in line with the Biblical account of Creation [Althouse, 2015]. Though no longer accepted in the realm of mainstream scientific institutions, Creationism nonetheless has a strong political presence in American society, and thus its exclusion from this book is surprising.…”