Update: Just learned the American Academy paper will be available for download at this link tomorrow. But don't go now, it just gives an error message.... Well, the piece yesterday prompted a lot of commentary on the blogs, on Facebook, on the Post website (214 last time I checked), and through emails directly to me. I want to make some remarks on some of the more interesting--and less interesting--reactions that I received. First, though, a factual point: A lot of folks have asked when the American Academy of Arts and Sciences paper that all of this is based on will be available. The answer is Tuesday, and while this paper is being printed in hard copy--technically an "occasional paper" of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences--an online PDF will also be available. I will link as soon as that occurs. (Tuesday is also day the paper is being rolled out at the other AAAS--American Association for the Advancement of Science--and once again, details on the event are here.) So, on to the responses. First, the ones I don't find all that interesting:
1. I've gotten a lot of emails where there's special pleading being done either about climate change, or about vaccination. ...