On my way home from New Orleans, I felt a sore throat and a fever come on quite suddenly. The six hours of flying were most unpleasant I’ve ever endured. I don’t recommend flying with the flu.
So I’m home, and I’ll probably be asleep for the next 24 hours.
A few quick notes:
My friend Greg Wright was listening to a teleconference on the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, and guess what happened: PZ Myers crashed *that* party as well! Here’s Greg’s report! Wow, Myers’ hysterical protests are is making me more and more interested in seeing this film all the time.
Meanwhile, I’m a bit disgruntled with the Expelled team myself for publishing one of my blog posts without my permission. Nobody called. Nobody inquired. They just lifted it and posted it. They didn’t even have the courtesy to provide a link to my original post, in which I gave context to the section that they posted. [UPDATE: I’ve received an apology, and a link has been added to the Expelled site. I’m fine with that.]
The Expelled team is really bad about providing links, even when they are replying to things that have been said online. See, e.g., this post from last September, which doesn’t even tell you which newspaper published the article that they’re responding to. As I said at my blog at the time, this “doesn’t bode well if anyone was hoping the film would promote good research habits or open and transparent dialogue.”
So far, one of the most disappointing aspects of this whole drama is that it appears that the people involved with Expelled have been dishonest or shady to some extent at least. It’s sure hard to root for a side with both sides appear to be dishonest….
Ah that stinks! I’ve just gotten over the flu myself… on the ground, and that was hard enough. Hope you get feeling better.
Don’t have anything to say regarding Expelled