QUOTE(Moulton @ Thu 8th May 2008, 8:40am)
Somewhere between last December and this week,
someone removed from James Tour's BLP his published disclaimer that he is not a proponent of ID.
QUOTE(Gone missing from Tour's BLP...)
On his web page labeled "Evolution/Creation" [http://www.jmtour.com/?page_id=27], Tour writes that "I have been labeled as an Intelligent Design (ID) proponent. I am not. I do not know how to use science to prove intelligent design."
Is there some reason that express disclaimer vanished from Tour's bio?
It's part of the same editing behavior that messed up Affective computing (notice that Odd Nature gutted it
under the rather deceptive summary "copyedit". I had to focus on preventing the article from saying that Tour signed a petition promoting ID, then the debate over at Rosalind Picard. I was going to go back and do some repair work on that section of Tour's article today.
It's rather frustrating how the debate at Picard's article turned out. Guettarda suggests a version of what had been argued for all along, and suddenly it's OK. The only possible explanation I can give is that the anti-ID crowd had to see the suggestion come from someone they consider one of their own. At least Guettarda seems to have some reading comprehension skills.
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