[extropy-chat] Discovery.com website

[Hughes, James J.]

> Does anyone know who these folks are? The website 
> http://www.discovery.org is stunning, 

Discovery is the chief lobby behind intelligent design, and they provide
a fellowship for one of the chief critics of transhumanism, Wesley J.
Smith. They are also religiously, socially and economically
conservative. 

Not one of my favorite thinktanks.

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