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Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Phillip Johnson wiki Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 11:18:42 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 70 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: <vb6k9i$39odk$1@dont-email.me> References: <vaoi4q$3ma1s$1@dont-email.me> <vap7r1$3sqo2$1@dont-email.me> <vapt1g$3vtd8$1@dont-email.me> <varbc8$b44p$1@dont-email.me> <vartk3$djnu$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="7996"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:5oFgUMoLCzDafXXwW8tADN53U9Y= Return-Path: <news@eternal-september.org> X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id A12B922986F; Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:18:40 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8060622978C for <talk-origins@ediacara.org>; Tue, 03 Sep 2024 05:18:38 -0400 (EDT) id EAEED872AC; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 05:18:45 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay.zaccari.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF74F7FC23 for <talk-origins@moderators.isc.org>; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 05:18:45 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 mod-relay.zaccari.net BF74F7FC23 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-256)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eternal-september.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 605BF5F863 for <talk-origins@moderators.isc.org>; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 09:18:43 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: name/605BF5F863; dmarc=fail (p=reject dis=none) header.from=yahoo.com id E6D2ADC01A9; Tue, 3 Sep 2024 11:18:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:18:42 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/2MSYfQHMIS4KYN0Q2fiPtdYtBnGNNVtuphiocTyVO/w== FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 smtp.eternal-september.org Bytes: 5798 On 2024-08-30 07:50:27 +0000, Athel Cornish-Bowden said: > On 2024-08-30 02:39:01 +0000, Chris Thompson said: > >> RonO wrote: >>> On 8/29/2024 2:26 AM, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: >>>> On 2024-08-29 01:16:08 +0000, RonO said: >>>> >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_E._Johnson >>>>> >>>>> Earlier this month I noted that someone had remove the Johnson >>>>> capitulation quote from the Johnson wiki. There seems to be no valid >>>>> reason for removing the quote, and Athel claimed that he had emailed >>>>> the editor that made the edit to see what was going on. I guess >>>>> nothing has come of the request. >>>> >>>> No. I had a back-and-forth discussion with the editor in question, >>>> mainly consisting of me suggesting a wording that he would accept and >>>> refrain from editing it back to what it was. He objected to all of >>>> these, except the last, which he hasn't replied to. I thought I'd leave >>>> it a month and then fix it. >>> >>> If you do not get this guys buy in, can he just remove it again? What >>> were his reasons for removing a perfectly valid quote, and Johnson's >>> admission about the ID scam when Johnson never retracted what he had >>> said. >>> >>> In the previous thread I note other people using the quote including >>> Ken Miller in a public presentation, and I do not recall any blow back >>> from Johnson. >>> >> >> It's instructive to look at Laurence Moran's attempts to correct >> Wikipedia on the subject of junk DNA. A long-term editor/contributor >> (who is not a biologist/chemist/biochemist) to Wikipedia put up a ream >> of garbage on the topic and Larry rewrote it. The editor deleted >> Moran's work and put his own back up. They went around a few times but >> of course Larry's expertise meant nothing and the buffoon's seniority >> at Wikipedia meant everything. >> >> If the person who changed the Johnson page is someone with an ax to >> grind and has been at Wikipedia for any length of time, it's probably >> useless to try to present anything (s)he doesn't like. > > In his User Page, GuardianH describes himself as follows: > > "I'm an American high school student from Massachusetts with a passion > in history, philosophy, and law along with an additional interest > pertaining to sociology and higher education. I write and edit > primarily on topics concerning constitutional law and legal > scholarship." > > No obvious expertise in Intelligent Design, therefore, but he has been > a very active editor, with more than 40000 contributions to Wikipedia. > I'm not sure he has an axe to grind, but he's just stuck his heels in. I have found one suitable secondary source that refers to Johnson's retreat: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-intelligent-design-fails However, it would e nice to have two. It surely must have been mentioned in reputable newpapers: New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, etc., but I haven't found anything. Any suggestions? Maybe something in Nature or Science? -- Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.