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Timaeus is digging deeper into a hole: | Quote | | I’m less concerned about formal fields of expertise, and completed degrees. I’m more interested in publications. Someone who really *knows* evolutionary biology will have multiple publications in the leading journals of the field, whether his degree was in biology or biochemistry or engineering or mathematics or something else, and whether he has a Ph.D. or only a Master’s. If Matzke has the potential to be a really innovative evolutionary biologist, he will already have shown it; it is not uncommon for science grad students to have several publications (at least accepted, if not yet printed) before graduating (even if those publications are often group rather than individual efforts). Where are Nick’s publications? Where has he shown that he *knows the craft* of evolutionary biology and therefore is the right person to explain it to James Tour, or to anyone else? I have seen nothing from him but sneering reviews of Behe and quarrelsome blogging. Where is the intellectual beef? Where are the calm, detached, scientific expositions, the detailed expositions of evolutionary mechanisms, free of culture-war polemics? |
No, you're not interested in Nick's publications, Timaeus. If you were, you would do what any academic type does: search for them. And then you would find them. Through Web of Science, PubMed, or Google Scholar. Or if you have been living under a rock for the last 10 years, by asking your friendly librarian.
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