{"id":3013,"date":"2013-08-19T10:18:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T09:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/?p=3013"},"modified":"2013-08-19T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T09:45:02","slug":"crappy-reporting-at-ud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/crappy-reporting-at-ud\/","title":{"rendered":"Crappy reporting at UD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, Darwinism IS a religion \u2026 and a crappy one, too<\/a><\/h2>\n

writes Denyse O’Leary in what goes for – and by – “news” at Uncommon Descent.<\/p>\n

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There have been truly horrible twitter attacks<\/a> on Caroline Criada-Perez and Labour MP Stella Creasey for succeeding with their lobby for a female face on the new \u00a310 note, replacing Charles Darwin. But O’Leary, who must be the most incompetent reporter of “news” ever to have a byline, and who seems to do nothing more than google “Darwin” to find items that could be used to smear a perfectly serviceable scientific theory, spins this story as a story about the depths “Darwinists” will sink to in support of their “religion”.<\/p>\n

I doubt if any of the misogynist cranks who attacked Criada-Perez and Creasey were “Darwinists” at all.\u00a0 In fact, if I had to guess, I’d suspect right-wing zealots who think women belong back in the kitchen, and have no business writing novels, let alone having a say in who should be on a bank-note.\u00a0 But that would be speculation,\u00a0 not “news”.<\/p>\n

Shame on you, Denyse, as a professional woman yourself, to spin a misogynists-are-evil story into a Darwinists-are-evil story. Go find some real battles to fight – there are enough of them.\u00a0 And try doing some actual reporting instead of spinning.<\/p>\n

*growls*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, Darwinism IS a religion \u2026 and a crappy one, too writes Denyse O’Leary in what goes for – and by – “news” at Uncommon Descent. There have been truly horrible twitter attacks on Caroline Criada-Perez and Labour MP Stella … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-communication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theskepticalzone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}