What the shitting cock arse is this?
Ralph Nader lending his name to a release from the openly theocratic, anti-evolutionist, Intelligent Design-backing Discovery Institute, calling for Jeb Bush to save Terri Schiavo?
The same Discovery Institute that likes to link Charles Darwin to the rise of Nazism? And perpetrates intellectual and scientific fraud on a daily basis?
The press release has also circulated without any reference to the Discovery Institute. This Wesley Smith character, Nader's long-time collaborator, is, however, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, an organisation with absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever. Nader would have to be a complete fool not to know about Smith's affiliation, or not to realise the DI would use him to boost its image. Perhaps he doesn't care.
Nader has an In the Public Interest column on the same topic, which doesn't mention any tactical alliance with the DI crowd, but does seem to take the same position as the DI piece, in very understated language. It is also, for lack of a better term, pretty lame. Nader wants Schiavo kept alive (or as much so as anyone whose brain has been atrophying can be said to be), but really doesn't offer any kind of argument or analysis beyond 'why not?' But it confirms that the DI piece (fairly) accurately reflects his public views on the matter...
Ralph Nader is a man willing to get into bed with some of the worst elements of the American Right, elements completely opposed to everything remotely classifiable as progressive or even rational. There is just no excuse for this.
(Via Pharyngula, whose proprietor has done sterling work exposing the scientific dishonesty of the Discovery Institute and its Intelligent Design movement.)
Posted by aloysius at March 29, 2005 03:28 PM | TrackBack |