>
> Given that Reiss's position has been misrepresented in the
> media, and
> by organisations such as the National Secular Society, it's worth
> going to the source. For Reiss's BA presentation brief:
>
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This might be better worded as "misrepresented in the some of the media".
A careful analysis of the articles written from Liverpool by the assembled
science hacks will show that most of them gave a pretty straightforward
analysis of Reiss's views, although I gather from someone else who heard him
that he failed to express himself as clearly as he might.
Unfortunately, some of the newspapers that did cover the story accurately
marred it with misleading headlines, an all too common crime against
humanity. For example, that bastion of religious fundamentalism, the
Guardian, ran it under the headline "Teach creationism, says top scientist".
Oh no he didn't.
Interestingly, the first time the knee jerked at the Royal Society it put
out a press release that initially tried to point the finger at the media
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