[ExI] Bad, New Scientist, Bad!

[Damien Broderick]

<http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/569>

<http://www.talkingsquid.net/archives/587>

<...most people absorb the cultural messages around them. The only 
message most people will take in is from seeing the front cover of 
New Scientist as they walk past the newsstand; millions of people 
will brush past and take on board the message that one of the most 
respected science magazines has announced that Darwin was wrong. Very 
few will buy the magazine to read the article, which is the only way 
they will learn that the story is only about a metaphor that Darwin 
used and not a critique of the theory of evolution.

There is no defence for New Scientist on this one.>