More on the Cheri Yecke Story
Wesley Elsberry has posted some additional information on this story on The Panda’s Thumb, and on his blog in which he states he believes the story is confirmed.
. . . As far as I am concerned, the Princeton Union-Eagle is vindicated in this matter; at the time that they reported, Cheri Pierson Yecke was indeed saying that teaching intelligent design was a decision that local school districts could undertake. Both the quote from the Princeton Union-Eagle and the subsequent criticism I made of Yeckes position on the issue are upheld by this source.
Wesley is quite right to point out that Yecke has only to hold a press conference and state her change of view if she no longer supports teaching intelligent design in high school classrooms. If she does still believe it should be taught, that is information the public has a right to know.
Since this whole issue resulted from Yecke’s use of ReputationDefender to look for negative material, I would like to call attention to this article on MSNBC, which reports on the other side of such activity. There can be a problem with negative information overwhelming the positive. It’s also quite possible for positive information to overwhelm necessary and important negative information. Search providers such as Google are right to battle spammy methods that try to get positive information into the highest search slots.
There is an apparent bias in the MSNBC story toward “cleaning up” negative information. But there is no guarantee that the negative information someone wants to clean up is actually inaccurate. Accurate negative information, especially for those involved in the public sector, is important. The search engines cannot guarantee accuracy; they can only aim for relevance.
In an age when information can be readily disseminated by just about anyone, and accessed just as easily, each reader needs to beware of lies.
“The anti-Yeckes are trying to created a false MIASMA with their witch-hunt against Yecke. Intelligent Design merely states their there is the possibility of a creator, instead of relying on the idea that the random mutations that do not provide a cohesive thread for life to grow on, be taken as an unarguable fact without proof, to have just happened over time without a driving force of any kind, including a program.
It is these anti-Yeckes that are acting with the retributions against their believed dogma, as reason for persecution – just like their religious counterparts in medieval times.
In their tactic, one loses sight of the real questions, for fear of being grouped in the “stupid” class and disqualified as a person capable of having thier own rational thoughts – so your rational thoughts line up in queue with theirs, because their dispute does not leave room for an arguable question of doctrine, as it stands.
To them I say pooey. Present the answer to the whole question. Then, and only then, can you create your miasma. Any attempt that falls short of this standard is cowardice.”
“The anti-Yeckes are trying to created a false MIASMA with their witch-hunt against Yecke. Intelligent Design merely states their there is the possibility of a creator, instead of relying on the idea that the random mutations that do not provide a cohesive thread for life to grow on, be taken as an unarguable fact without proof, to have just happened over time without a driving force of any kind, including a program.
It is these anti-Yeckes that are acting with the retributions against their believed dogma, as reason for persecution – just like their religious counterparts in medieval times.
In their tactic, one loses sight of the real questions, for fear of being grouped in the “stupid” class and disqualified as a person capable of having thier own rational thoughts – so your rational thoughts line up in queue with theirs, because their dispute does not leave room for an arguable question of doctrine, as it stands.
To them I say pooey. Present the answer to the whole question. Then, and only then, can you create your miasma. Any attempt that falls short of this standard is cowardice, plain and simple.”